University of Georgia

Director of admissions

Paul Rollins

Application deadline

02/10

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

2,283

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

556

Overall acceptance rate

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

229

Number of full-time program applicants

2,283

Number of full-time program acceptances

556

Full-time acceptance rate

24.4%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

229

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

3.39-3.82

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

GA

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

92.7%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

84.7%

Total graduates

229

Graduates employed at graduation

89.6%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$65,000

Median private sector starting salary

$100,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$145,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

63%

Median public service starting salary

$46,500

Percent employed in academia

0.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

5.0%

Percent employed in government

7.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

13.0%

Percent employed in law firms

62.0%

Percent employed in public interest

13.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

6.0%

Graduates employed in-state

74%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

18

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

0.4%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

0.8%

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

1.3%

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

0.0%

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

86.8%

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

4.5%

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

2.7%

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

1.3%

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

0.8%

Employment location unknown

0.8%

Career services operations: Each year more than 2,000 legal employers seek to hire University of Georgia students and graduates through the interview programs and services of the Legal Career Services Office. Students are also offered opportunities to work abroad in more than 30 countries through the law school’s Global Internship Program.

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

94.0%

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)

0.0%

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%