Fordham University

Director of admissions

John Chalmers

Application deadline

03/01

Full-time program application fee

$70

Part-time program application fee

$70

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

7,867

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

1,961

Overall acceptance rate

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

476

Number of full-time program applicants

6,859

Number of full-time program acceptances

1,700

Full-time acceptance rate

24.8%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

316

Number of part-time program applicants

1,315

Number of part-time program acceptances

261

Part-time acceptance rate

19.8%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

160

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

3.41-3.76

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

163-167

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

3.17-3.62

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

160-164

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

NY

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

88.5%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

76.7%

Total graduates

492

Graduates employed at graduation

87.9%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$152,700

Median private sector starting salary

$160,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$160,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

86%

Median public service starting salary

$49,785

Percent employed in academia

0.8%

Percent employed in business and industry

8.6%

Percent employed in government

6.7%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

5.7%

Percent employed in law firms

69.3%

Percent employed in public interest

5.1%

Percent employed in an unknown field

3.8%

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

4.2%

Graduates employed in-state

80%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

14

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

1.7%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

85.1%

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

0.2%

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

0.0%

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

2.3%

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

0.0%

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

0.0%

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

1.7%

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

0.2%

Employment location unknown

8.2%

Career services operations: The Career Planning Center’s mission: to support students and alumni in job search efforts and career development. The CPC coordinates on-campus interviews with more than 250 employers for internships, summer associate and post-graduate positions and hosts various career development programs focusing on practice areas, skills-based workshops, professional development and alternative legal careers.

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

84.0%

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)

4.0%

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%