University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

Director of admissions

Michael States

Application deadline

03/01

Full-time program application fee

$70

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

3,063

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

579

Overall acceptance rate

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

255

Number of full-time program applicants

3,063

Number of full-time program acceptances

579

Full-time acceptance rate

18.9%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

255

Number of part-time program applicants

N/A

Number of part-time program acceptances

N/A

Part-time acceptance rate

N/A

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

N/A

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

3.4-3.77

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

157-163

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

NC

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

86.5%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

75.8%

Total graduates

236

Graduates employed at graduation

71.2%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$65,000

Median private sector starting salary

$115,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$135,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

73%

Median public service starting salary

$43,500

Percent employed in academia

3.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

9.0%

Percent employed in government

8.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

8.0%

Percent employed in law firms

63.0%

Percent employed in public interest

6.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

3.0%

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

1.8%

Graduates employed in-state

61%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

0%

Number of states where graduates are employed

24

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

3.0%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

5.5%

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

3.0%

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

1.0%

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

81.0%

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

0.5%

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)

0.5%

Employment location unknown

2.0%

Career services operations: Career Services provides a comprehensive program designed to assist students & alumni with a wide range of career related activity. It assists in identifying career interests & finding summer & permanent employment. CSO provides counseling, tools, programs, job skills training & other career assistance, coordinates job fairs, hosts on-campus interviews & provides other services for employers.

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

88.0%

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

3.0%

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)

7.0%

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%