University of Houston

Director of admissions

Jamie West

Application deadline

02/15

Full-time program application fee

$70

Part-time program application fee

$70

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

summer

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

3,337

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

958

Overall acceptance rate

Total number of full- and part-time first-year students enrolled

313

Number of full-time program applicants

2,999

Number of full-time program acceptances

882

Full-time acceptance rate

29.4%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

255

Number of part-time program applicants

338

Number of part-time program acceptances

76

Part-time acceptance rate

22.5%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

58

25th-75th percentile GPA scores for all students

25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for all students

25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for full-time students

3.13-3.67

25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for full-time students

158-163

25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for part-time students

3.01-3.64

25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for part-time students

154-161

State where the greatest number of first-time test takers took the bar

TX

School’s bar passage rate for first-time test takers

89.9%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

84.0%

Total graduates

323

Graduates employed at graduation

80.2%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$60,000

Median private sector starting salary

$90,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$145,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

76%

Median public service starting salary

$50,500

Percent employed in academia

2.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

20.0%

Percent employed in government

10.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

6.0%

Percent employed in law firms

58.0%

Percent employed in public interest

4.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

Percent employed in a judicial clerkship by an Article III federal judge

3.5%

Graduates employed in-state

89%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

13

New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)

0.3%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

1.3%

East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)

1.3%

West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD)

0.3%

South Atlantic (DE, DC, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)

4.0%

East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN)

0.0%

West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)

89.0%

Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)

1.5%

Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY)

1.3%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: The cornerstone of our placement office is superior career counseling designed to enable students to explore career options and develop job searching skills. Through counseling, panel discussions, networking receptions, workshops, job fairs, and partnership with the surrounding legal community we promote numerous legal and non-legal employment opportunities to our students.

Bar admission required or anticipated (e.g., attorney and corporate counsel positions, law clerks, judicial clerks)

82.1%

J.D. preferred, law degree enhances position (e.g., corporate contracts administrator, alternative dispute resolution specialist, government regulatory analyst, FBI special agent)

8.6%

Professional/other (jobs that require professional skills or training but for which a J.D. is neither preferred nor particularly applicable; e.g., accountant, teacher, business manager, nurse)

6.7%

Nonprofessional/other (job that does not require any professional skills or training or is taken on a temporary basis and not viewed as part of a career path)

2.6%