Cleveland State University

Director of admissions

Christopher Lucak

Application deadline

05/01

Full-time program application fee

$0

Part-time program application fee

$0

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

1,626

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

629

Overall acceptance rate

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

209

Number of full-time program applicants

1,350

Number of full-time program acceptances

527

Full-time acceptance rate

39.0%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

147

Number of part-time program applicants

276

Number of part-time program acceptances

102

Part-time acceptance rate

37.0%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

62

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

3.08-3.66

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

153-157

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

2.97-3.49

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

150-155

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

OH

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

87.1%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

86.3%

Total graduates

179

Graduates employed at graduation

70.5%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$48,500

Median private sector starting salary

$75,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$115,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

33%

Median public service starting salary

$44,000

Percent employed in academia

3.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

17.0%

Percent employed in government

16.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

2.0%

Percent employed in law firms

61.0%

Percent employed in public interest

1.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

1.0%

Graduates employed in-state

84%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

2%

Number of states where graduates are employed

15

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

0.0%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

3.0%

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

86.0%

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

0.0%

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

3.0%

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

1.0%

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

2.0%

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

1.0%

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

2.0%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: C-M holds Fall and Spring Interview Programs, a Career Options Fair and posts thousands of jobs. Students participate in Minority Clerkship and Judicial Externship Programs, and over 15 job fairs. Through externships, clerkships, and clinics, our classrooms extend into the Cleveland legal community. C-M offers LRAPs for $3000 for each of three years to alumni pursuing public interest 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)

13.0%

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)

1.0%

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)

2.0%