University of Connecticut

Director of admissions

Karen DeMeola

Application deadline

03/01

Full-time program application fee

$30

Part-time program application fee

$30

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

2,010

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

457

Overall acceptance rate

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

192

Number of full-time program applicants

1,872

Number of full-time program acceptances

423

Full-time acceptance rate

22.6%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

117

Number of part-time program applicants

838

Number of part-time program acceptances

166

Part-time acceptance rate

19.8%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

75

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

3.17-3.6

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

157-163

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

3.21-3.72

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

155-159

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

CT

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

90.3%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

85.5%

Total graduates

182

Graduates employed at graduation

69.0%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$80,000

Median private sector starting salary

$115,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$160,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

70%

Median public service starting salary

$54,625

Percent employed in academia

3.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

19.8%

Percent employed in government

9.6%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

13.8%

Percent employed in law firms

50.9%

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

2.4%

Graduates employed in-state

69%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

0%

Number of states where graduates are employed

14

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

78.4%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

13.8%

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

1.8%

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

0.0%

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

4.8%

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

0.0%

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

0.0%

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

1.2%

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

0.0%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: The School takes pride in its students’ careers and works to help them meet their goals. We offer dozens of programs annually, individual career counseling and recruitment programs on-campus and in cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, and D.C. Staff includes three licensed attorneys who maintain a comprehensive set of print and online materials for access to thousands of job opportunities.

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

75.0%

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)

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%