Rutgers Newark

Director of admissions

Anita Walton

Application deadline

03/15

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

3,356

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

859

Overall acceptance rate

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

257

Number of full-time program applicants

2,724

Number of full-time program acceptances

741

Full-time acceptance rate

27.2%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

189

Number of part-time program applicants

632

Number of part-time program acceptances

118

Part-time acceptance rate

18.7%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

68

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

3.06-3.58

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

155-161

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

2.92-3.46

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

152-159

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

NJ

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

83.6%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

81.8%

Total graduates

258

Graduates employed at graduation

83.6%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$85,000

Median private sector starting salary

$125,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$160,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

61%

Median public service starting salary

$39,179

Percent employed in academia

3.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

15.0%

Percent employed in government

6.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

24.0%

Percent employed in law firms

45.0%

Percent employed in public interest

5.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

2.0%

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

1.0%

Graduates employed in-state

61%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

13

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

0.0%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

94.0%

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

0.0%

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

0.0%

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

2.0%

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

0.0%

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

1.0%

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

2.0%

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

0.0%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: Traditional and innovative programs and services to help students and alumni develop career goals, conduct effective job searches. Staff of 3 attorneys offer skills training, panels on career opportunities, issues, and practice areas; workshops on resume writing, interviewing, and networking; on- and off-campus interview programs; web-based job bank; mock interview program; individual counseling.

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

77.0%

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

10.0%

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)

13.0%

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)

0.0%