Emory University

Director of admissions

Lynell Cadray

Application deadline

03/01

Full-time program application fee

$70

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

4,209

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

1,009

Overall acceptance rate

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

224

Number of full-time program applicants

4,209

Number of full-time program acceptances

1,009

Full-time acceptance rate

24.0%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

224

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

3.42-3.71

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

164-166

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

GA

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

93.6%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

84.7%

Total graduates

220

Graduates employed at graduation

97.1%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$80,000

Median private sector starting salary

$130,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$145,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

72%

Median public service starting salary

$52,000

Percent employed in academia

0.5%

Percent employed in business and industry

7.1%

Percent employed in government

10.1%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

13.1%

Percent employed in law firms

64.6%

Percent employed in public interest

4.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.5%

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

6.0%

Graduates employed in-state

42%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

0%

Number of states where graduates are employed

28

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

2.1%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

21.0%

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

4.1%

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

1.5%

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

56.0%

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

4.1%

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

4.6%

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

4.1%

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

1.5%

Employment location unknown

0.5%

Career services operations: Emory Law’s Career Services Office provides a full range of career planning and strategy services and job search skills training: interviewing opportunities on-campus and in New York, Washington, D.C., and other cities nationwide; public interest advising (and financial assistance for public interest jobs); judicial clerkship programming, and mentoring and networking opportunities.

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

88.5%

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

7.0%

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)

4.0%

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)

0.5%