University of Florida

Director of admissions

J. Michael Patrick

Application deadline

01/15

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

3,093

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

970

Overall acceptance rate

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

397

Number of full-time program applicants

3,093

Number of full-time program acceptances

970

Full-time acceptance rate

31.4%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

397

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

3.3-3.7

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

156-162

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

FL

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

85.3%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

77.6%

Total graduates

415

Graduates employed at graduation

75.8%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$70,000

Median private sector starting salary

$92,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$115,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

66%

Median public service starting salary

$46,000

Percent employed in academia

2.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

8.0%

Percent employed in government

15.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

5.0%

Percent employed in law firms

62.0%

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

2.5%

Graduates employed in-state

76%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

19

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

0.5%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

3.1%

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

0.5%

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

0.0%

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

90.1%

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

0.3%

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

1.6%

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

1.6%

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

0.0%

Employment location unknown

1.4%

Career services operations: The college’s Center for Career Services has four professional staff members who assist the student body. The Center for Career Services hosts a number of workshops each year to inform students of job trends, opportunities, and interviewing skills. The center coordinates our extensive On-Campus Interviewing (OCI) each fall and spring and participates in numerous off-campus recruiting events.

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

92.0%

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

5.0%

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)

2.0%

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%