Pepperdine University

Director of admissions

Shannon Phillips

Application deadline

02/01

Full-time program application fee

$50

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

2,767

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

878

Overall acceptance rate

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

233

Number of full-time program applicants

2,767

Number of full-time program acceptances

878

Full-time acceptance rate

31.7%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

233

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

3.36-3.77

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

158-162

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

CA

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

77.4%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

65.7%

Total graduates

223

Graduates employed at graduation

70.7%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$80,000

Median private sector starting salary

$100,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$140,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

55%

Median public service starting salary

$56,000

Percent employed in academia

3.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

24.0%

Percent employed in government

15.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

1.0%

Percent employed in law firms

49.0%

Percent employed in public interest

3.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

5.0%

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

0.5%

Graduates employed in-state

76%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

19

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

1.0%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

2.9%

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

1.0%

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

1.0%

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

2.0%

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

0.5%

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

4.9%

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

77.0%

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

3.9%

Employment location unknown

5.0%

Career services operations: Our Career Development Office is staffed by an Asst. Dean, Director, two associate directors, recruitment coordinator, and a technology person, and contains substantial resource material for job searches. We have an on-campus interviewing program each fall and numerous workshops throughout the year. Students are required to participate in a Career Development Prog. as a condition of graduation.

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

73.0%

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

20.0%

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)

2.0%

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)

1.0%