University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

Director of admissions

Paul D. Pless

Application deadline

03/15

Full-time program application fee

$75

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

3,299

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

947

Overall acceptance rate

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

188

Number of full-time program applicants

3,299

Number of full-time program acceptances

947

Full-time acceptance rate

28.7%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

188

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

3.2-3.8

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

160-167

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

IL

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

94.7%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

88.6%

Total graduates

222

Graduates employed at graduation

87.4%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$68,500

Median private sector starting salary

$145,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$160,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

85%

Median public service starting salary

$49,500

Percent employed in academia

1.4%

Percent employed in business and industry

11.9%

Percent employed in government

11.4%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

10.9%

Percent employed in law firms

61.1%

Percent employed in public interest

2.4%

Percent employed in an unknown field

1.0%

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

5.2%

Graduates employed in-state

63%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

2%

Number of states where graduates are employed

22

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

0.5%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

5.2%

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

65.4%

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

4.7%

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

6.6%

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

1.9%

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

3.3%

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

6.6%

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

1.4%

Employment location unknown

1.9%

Career services operations: The Office of Career Planning and Professional Development provides the resources necessary to enable our students and alumni to follow their dreams. Offering a wide variety of programs and job fairs to provide opportunities to our diverse student body, our staff of six includes four attorneys with experience in legal, non-legal, governmental and public service employment.

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

90.5%

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

4.7%

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)

2.8%

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)

0.5%