Valparaiso University

Director of admissions

Diann Lapin

Application deadline

06/01

Full-time program application fee

$60

Part-time program application fee

$60

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

2,381

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

1,059

Overall acceptance rate

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

215

Number of full-time program applicants

2,165

Number of full-time program acceptances

989

Full-time acceptance rate

45.7%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

185

Number of part-time program applicants

216

Number of part-time program acceptances

70

Part-time acceptance rate

32.4%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

30

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

3.11-3.7

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

149-154

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

2.89-3.51

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

144-149

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

IN

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

85.2%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

84.0%

Total graduates

151

Graduates employed at graduation

56.3%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$45,000

Median private sector starting salary

$55,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$75,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

66%

Median public service starting salary

$49,323

Percent employed in academia

2.2%

Percent employed in business and industry

18.4%

Percent employed in government

23.5%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

3.7%

Percent employed in law firms

47.8%

Percent employed in public interest

4.4%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

3.7%

Graduates employed in-state

43%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

0%

Number of states where graduates are employed

25

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

0.0%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

3.7%

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

69.9%

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

4.4%

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

5.9%

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

2.9%

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

3.7%

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

2.2%

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

7.4%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: The Career Planning Center, with three professional staff, provides extensive counseling, a wealth of programming, and on-campus interviews and other routes to job opportunities. Alumni and faculty are deeply engaged in assisting students. The Center strives to provide value to students and alumni by providing essential skills and knowledge, and access to employers locally and nationwide.

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

76.5%

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)

9.5%

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)

3.0%