American University

Director of admissions

Akira Shiroma

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

8,485

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

1,775

Overall acceptance rate

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

474

Number of full-time program applicants

7,512

Number of full-time program acceptances

1,561

Full-time acceptance rate

20.8%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

381

Number of part-time program applicants

973

Number of part-time program acceptances

214

Part-time acceptance rate

22.0%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

93

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

160-163

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

3.15-3.5

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

159-161

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

NY

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

88.0%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

76.7%

Total graduates

483

Graduates employed at graduation

87.1%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$60,000

Median private sector starting salary

$90,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$145,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

73%

Median public service starting salary

$53,000

Percent employed in academia

0.9%

Percent employed in business and industry

12.7%

Percent employed in government

16.9%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

9.6%

Percent employed in law firms

53.1%

Percent employed in public interest

6.7%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.2%

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

1.1%

Graduates employed in-state

48%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

31

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

2.3%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

12.0%

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

2.4%

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

0.5%

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

70.5%

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

0.8%

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

1.0%

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

6.0%

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

2.0%

Employment location unknown

2.0%

Career services operations: The Office of Career & Professional Development provides career counseling, sponsors programs, and maintains on-line and hardcopy resources. Seven career counselors have JDs and prior experience in private practice, public interest, international, government, and judicial clerkships. The office organizes several recruitment programs for students seeking summer and post-graduate positions.

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

83.0%

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

9.0%

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)

8.0%

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%