Baylor University

Director of admissions

Becky Chollett

Application deadline

03/01

Full-time program application fee

$40

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

winter/spring, summer

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

3,436

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

1,146

Overall acceptance rate

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

186

Number of full-time program applicants

3,436

Number of full-time program acceptances

1,146

Full-time acceptance rate

33.4%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

186

Number of part-time program applicants

N/A

Number of part-time program acceptances

N/A

Part-time acceptance rate

N/A

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

N/A

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

3.39-3.79

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

156-162

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

N/A

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

N/A

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

TX

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

98.5%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

84.0%

Total graduates

142

Graduates employed at graduation

61.2%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$60,000

Median private sector starting salary

$74,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$125,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

79%

Median public service starting salary

$50,000

Percent employed in academia

1.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

8.0%

Percent employed in government

15.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

5.0%

Percent employed in law firms

69.0%

Percent employed in public interest

2.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

4.0%

Graduates employed in-state

80%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

0%

Number of states where graduates are employed

13

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

0.0%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

0.0%

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

0.8%

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

4.0%

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

6.4%

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

0.8%

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

80.0%

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

1.6%

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

4.0%

Employment location unknown

2.4%

Career services operations: The Career Services Office helps students plan their career strategies, identify job opportunities, market themselves, and improve their interviewing skills. The CSO also works with employers to assist in their hiring needs and many resources are provided through Symplicity, an online career network. Symplicity workshops are regularly held to assist students in their professional development.

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

92.8%

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

5.6%

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)

0.8%

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)

0.8%