University of Mississippi

Director of admissions

Barbara Vinson

Application deadline

03/01

Full-time program application fee

$40

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

summer

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

1,380

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

470

Overall acceptance rate

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

164

Number of full-time program applicants

1,380

Number of full-time program acceptances

470

Full-time acceptance rate

34.1%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

164

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

3.19-3.68

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

154-159

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

MS

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

92.2%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

87.8%

Total graduates

153

Graduates employed at graduation

57.5%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$45,150

Median private sector starting salary

$73,500

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$88,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

79%

Median public service starting salary

$52,688

Percent employed in academia

0.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

17.0%

Percent employed in government

7.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

19.0%

Percent employed in law firms

50.0%

Percent employed in public interest

5.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

2.0%

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

3.0%

Graduates employed in-state

59%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

0%

Number of states where graduates are employed

16

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

0.0%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

1.0%

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

1.0%

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

1.0%

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

11.0%

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

80.0%

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

5.0%

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

1.0%

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

0.0%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: The University of Mississippi School of Law Career Services Office offers assistance to all law students, beginning with first-years in November of their first semester to assist them with summer employment; with second-years to assist in their summer employment; and with third-years who seek legal employment following graduation. The Office also assists alumni who wish to make a job change.

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

90.0%

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

10.0%

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%