New York University

Director of admissions

Michelle Adorno

Application deadline

02/01

Full-time program application fee

$75

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

7,074

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

1,622

Overall acceptance rate

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

448

Number of full-time program applicants

7,074

Number of full-time program acceptances

1,622

Full-time acceptance rate

22.9%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

448

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

3.56-3.85

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

169-173

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

NY

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

95.8%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

76.7%

Total graduates

493

Graduates employed at graduation

99.6%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$145,000

Median private sector starting salary

$160,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$160,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

94%

Median public service starting salary

$50,000

Percent employed in academia

0.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

2.0%

Percent employed in government

3.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

8.0%

Percent employed in law firms

79.0%

Percent employed in public interest

8.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

7.3%

Graduates employed in-state

66%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

0%

Number of states where graduates are employed

24

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

3.3%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

68.2%

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

2.0%

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

0.7%

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

9.1%

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

0.8%

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

1.2%

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

13.7%

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

0.8%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: Career planning for first-year students includes personal career counseling, workshops on all aspects of the job search, specialty panels featuring speakers from all areas of practice, and a videotape mock interview program. Each year, more than 500 private law firms, public interest organizations, government agencies, corporations, and public accounting firms interview at the law school.

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

96.0%

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)

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)

0.0%