Seattle University

Director of admissions

Carol Cochran

Application deadline

N/A

Full-time program application fee

$60

Part-time program application fee

$60

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

summer

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

2,907

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

1,011

Overall acceptance rate

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

328

Number of full-time program applicants

2,657

Number of full-time program acceptances

913

Full-time acceptance rate

34.4%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

263

Number of part-time program applicants

250

Number of part-time program acceptances

98

Part-time acceptance rate

39.2%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

65

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

3.19-3.6

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

154-160

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

3.14-3.56

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

154-160

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

WA

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

76.9%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

78.3%

Total graduates

329

Graduates employed at graduation

67.9%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$55,000

Median private sector starting salary

$80,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$85,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

23%

Median public service starting salary

$51,000

Percent employed in academia

1.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

28.0%

Percent employed in government

15.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

3.0%

Percent employed in law firms

42.0%

Percent employed in public interest

11.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

0.3%

Graduates employed in-state

84%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

0%

Number of states where graduates are employed

19

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

0.3%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

2.6%

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

1.0%

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

1.3%

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

2.3%

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

0.3%

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

0.3%

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

89.0%

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

2.9%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: The Center for Professional Development is staffed by four professionals with diverse legal backgrounds, and offers individual counseling to help students identify curricular and career options, assistance with resume and cover-letter writing and interviewing techniques, and programs, career panels, and job fairs to help students understand how the job search and career development processes work.

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

76.0%

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

11.0%

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)

11.0%

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)

2.0%