Drake University

Director of admissions

Kara Blanchard

Application deadline

04/01

Full-time program application fee

$50

Part-time program application fee

$50

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

summer

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

1,169

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

561

Overall acceptance rate

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

161

Number of full-time program applicants

1,143

Number of full-time program acceptances

553

Full-time acceptance rate

48.4%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

159

Number of part-time program applicants

26

Number of part-time program acceptances

8

Part-time acceptance rate

30.8%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

2

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

3.07-3.68

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

153-157

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

IA

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

91.8%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

89.5%

Total graduates

155

Graduates employed at graduation

N/A

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$45,250

Median private sector starting salary

$51,250

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$65,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

48%

Median public service starting salary

$41,213

Percent employed in academia

4.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

14.0%

Percent employed in government

10.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

10.0%

Percent employed in law firms

52.0%

Percent employed in public interest

10.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

1.0%

Graduates employed in-state

67%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

23

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

0.0%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

1.3%

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

6.1%

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

75.1%

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

8.2%

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

1.4%

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

0.7%

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

0.0%

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

6.2%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: The Career Development Office has two full-time professionals, both lawyers, who sponsor programs and workshops, engage alumni and friends, and counsel students individually to help them to identify and pursue job opportunities. Drake students repeatedly express strong satisfaction with the office as demonstrated in very positive results in the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE).

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

79.0%

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

6.0%

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)

15.0%

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%