University of Notre Dame

Director of admissions

Melissa Fruscione

Application deadline

03/15

Full-time program application fee

$60

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

3,319

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

765

Overall acceptance rate

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

179

Number of full-time program applicants

3,319

Number of full-time program acceptances

765

Full-time acceptance rate

23.0%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

179

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

3.42-3.78

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

163-166

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

IL

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

88.6%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

88.6%

Total graduates

184

Graduates employed at graduation

88.1%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$90,000

Median private sector starting salary

$135,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$160,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

80%

Median public service starting salary

$53,000

Percent employed in academia

0.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

3.4%

Percent employed in government

10.3%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

13.2%

Percent employed in law firms

70.3%

Percent employed in public interest

1.7%

Percent employed in an unknown field

1.1%

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

9.1%

Graduates employed in-state

10%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

2%

Number of states where graduates are employed

24

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

2.3%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

17.1%

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

40.0%

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

3.4%

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

16.6%

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

0.6%

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

5.2%

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

10.9%

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

1.1%

Employment location unknown

1.1%

Career services operations: CSO dedicated to encouraging a wide range of on-campus interviews along with diversity of employers who cannot interview on campus; sponsors variety of programs, off-site interviews and career fairs; participates in multiple programs off-campus, with special emphasis on public service.

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

96.6%

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

1.2%

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)

1.1%

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)

1.1%