Boston College

Director of admissions

Rita Jones

Application deadline

03/01

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

6,552

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

1,334

Overall acceptance rate

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

299

Number of full-time program applicants

6,552

Number of full-time program acceptances

1,334

Full-time acceptance rate

20.4%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

299

Number of part-time program applicants

0

Number of part-time program acceptances

0

Part-time acceptance rate

N/A

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

0

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

3.49-3.77

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

162-165

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

MA

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

94.0%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

86.1%

Total graduates

255

Graduates employed at graduation

85.7%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$135,000

Median private sector starting salary

$160,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$160,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

74%

Median public service starting salary

$47,008

Percent employed in academia

2.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

9.0%

Percent employed in government

5.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

14.0%

Percent employed in law firms

65.0%

Percent employed in public interest

5.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

3.5%

Graduates employed in-state

52%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

0%

Number of states where graduates are employed

26

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

60.2%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

17.6%

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

2.9%

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

0.4%

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

11.5%

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

0.0%

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

0.4%

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

4.5%

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

2.1%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: Our C. S. Office works with our students to educate them about the profession and career options, and to help them develop successful job search techniques and market themselves. Approximately 400 employers recruit our students. We sponsor off-campus recruiting programs in NY, LA, San Fran., Washington DC, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

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

92.0%

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

5.0%

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)

1.0%

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)

2.0%