Brigham Young University

Director of admissions

GaeLynn Kuchar

Application deadline

03/01

Full-time program application fee

$50

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

790

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

241

Overall acceptance rate

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

146

Number of full-time program applicants

790

Number of full-time program acceptances

241

Full-time acceptance rate

30.5%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

146

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

3.51-3.88

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

161-166

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

UT

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

96.1%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

84.7%

Total graduates

150

Graduates employed at graduation

80.4%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$87,000

Median private sector starting salary

$102,500

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$135,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

48%

Median public service starting salary

$41,000

Percent employed in academia

1.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

17.0%

Percent employed in government

9.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

14.0%

Percent employed in law firms

56.0%

Percent employed in public interest

3.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

14.0%

Graduates employed in-state

43%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

21

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

N/A

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

4.1%

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

3.4%

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

0.7%

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

4.1%

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

1.4%

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

3.4%

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

20.7%

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

59.3%

Employment location unknown

1.4%

Career services operations: The Career Services Office organizes on and off campus interviewing events and produces the Professional Development Handbook, the Job Hunt Book for second and third year students, the Judicial Clerkship Handbook, and the Public Service Handbook to assist students in finding clerkships and permanent employment. It also sponsors a web page with links to several regional and national databases.

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

85.0%

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

4.0%

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)

10.0%

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)

1.0%