University of Arizona

Director of admissions

Eric Eden

Application deadline

02/15

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

2,242

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

756

Overall acceptance rate

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

160

Number of full-time program applicants

2,242

Number of full-time program acceptances

756

Full-time acceptance rate

33.7%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

160

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

3.36-3.76

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

AZ

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

87.6%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

78.4%

Total graduates

160

Graduates employed at graduation

75.0%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$75,000

Median private sector starting salary

$110,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$120,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

65%

Median public service starting salary

$54,500

Percent employed in academia

2.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

4.1%

Percent employed in government

18.4%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

19.7%

Percent employed in law firms

51.0%

Percent employed in public interest

4.1%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.7%

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

5.5%

Graduates employed in-state

66%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

0%

Number of states where graduates are employed

17

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

0.5%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

4.5%

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

0.0%

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

0.5%

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

3.5%

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

0.0%

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

2.0%

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

13.0%

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

75.5%

Employment location unknown

0.6%

Career services operations: Strong focus on placing 1L’s in legal settings each summer (91% in summer 2008). Judicial, Congressional, government & public interest internships. 18 national job fairs. On-Campus & Off-Campus Interview Program in NYC, LA, DC, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Philadelphia. Alumni mentoring nationwide. Career counseling, workshops, mock interviews.

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)

2.0%

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)

1.3%

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)

0.7%