Ohio State University

Director of admissions

Kathy S. Northern

Application deadline

03/15

Full-time program application fee

$60

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

2,375

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

767

Overall acceptance rate

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

231

Number of full-time program applicants

2,375

Number of full-time program acceptances

767

Full-time acceptance rate

32.3%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

231

Number of part-time program applicants

0

Number of part-time program acceptances

0

Part-time acceptance rate

N/A

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

0

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

3.36-3.78

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

159-164

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

OH

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

90.5%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

86.3%

Total graduates

231

Graduates employed at graduation

84.3%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$63,000

Median private sector starting salary

$95,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$115,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

69%

Median public service starting salary

$47,468

Percent employed in academia

2.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

15.0%

Percent employed in government

20.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

13.0%

Percent employed in law firms

43.0%

Percent employed in public interest

7.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

7.4%

Graduates employed in-state

57%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

29

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

1.0%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

5.0%

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

64.0%

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

1.0%

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

15.0%

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

1.0%

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

2.0%

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

5.0%

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

5.0%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: Seven professionals provide an array of services to students including the full range of career counseling, Internet-based on-line job postings, and a variety of workshops, Four OCI sessions annually, off-campus job fairs in ten cities nationwide. A unique program to identify student strengths and relate them to career options was initiated in 2006.

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

81.0%

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

14.0%

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)

3.0%

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%