Texas Tech University

Director of admissions

Terence Cook

Application deadline

02/01

Full-time program application fee

$50

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

summer

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

1,576

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

541

Overall acceptance rate

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

204

Number of full-time program applicants

1,576

Number of full-time program acceptances

541

Full-time acceptance rate

34.3%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

204

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

3.2-3.7

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

154-159

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

90.3%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

84.0%

Total graduates

231

Graduates employed at graduation

N/A

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$40,000

Median private sector starting salary

$84,300

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$105,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

55%

Median public service starting salary

$41,000

Percent employed in academia

0.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

2.0%

Percent employed in government

14.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

3.0%

Percent employed in law firms

79.0%

Percent employed in public interest

2.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

N/A

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

1.0%

Graduates employed in-state

93%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

0%

Number of states where graduates are employed

5

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

N/A

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

N/A

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

N/A

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

N/A

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

1.0%

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

N/A

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

93.0%

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

N/A

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

6.0%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: Career Services Center provides a forum for interviewing with prospective Texas employers. Law firms seek second year students for summer clerkships that can lead to offers for associate positions. Besides On-Campus Interviewing, other programs include Texas-In-Washington, Sunbelt Minority, Public Interest and Texas Young Lawyers Association. Please see: http://www.law.ttu.edu

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

92.0%

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

8.0%

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)

0.0%

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)

0.0%