Marquette University

Director of admissions

Sean Reilly

Application deadline

04/01

Full-time program application fee

$50

Part-time program application fee

$50

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

2,187

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

835

Overall acceptance rate

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

225

Number of full-time program applicants

1,990

Number of full-time program acceptances

791

Full-time acceptance rate

39.7%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

187

Number of part-time program applicants

197

Number of part-time program acceptances

44

Part-time acceptance rate

22.3%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

38

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

3.19-3.6

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

155-159

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

2.95-3.59

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

152-157

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

WI

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

100.0%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

91.9%

Total graduates

196

Graduates employed at graduation

66.7%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$47,125

Median private sector starting salary

$73,060

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$90,750

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

65%

Median public service starting salary

$48,000

Percent employed in academia

2.2%

Percent employed in business and industry

22.6%

Percent employed in government

7.5%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

7.0%

Percent employed in law firms

57.5%

Percent employed in public interest

3.2%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

3.3%

Graduates employed in-state

73%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

0%

Number of states where graduates are employed

17

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

0.0%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

1.6%

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

83.3%

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

1.6%

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

3.8%

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

0.0%

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

4.3%

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

2.2%

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

2.7%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: The Career Planning Center offers students and alumni the following: individual career planning and advising, fall and spring on-campus interview programs, a comprehensive resource library, interactive skills workshops, a monthly newsletter, career and job search-related speakers and panel discussions, mock interviews, online jobs bulletins, and an alumni network of career advisers.

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

79.6%

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

13.4%

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)

6.5%

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)

0.5%