University of Pittsburgh

Director of admissions

Charmaine C. McCall

Application deadline

03/01

Full-time program application fee

$55

Part-time program application fee

N/A

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

2,113

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

789

Overall acceptance rate

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

242

Number of full-time program applicants

2,113

Number of full-time program acceptances

789

Full-time acceptance rate

37.3%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

242

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

3.13-3.66

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

157-161

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

PA

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

89.5%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

83.0%

Total graduates

243

Graduates employed at graduation

75.5%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$65,000

Median private sector starting salary

$95,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$125,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

53%

Median public service starting salary

$46,000

Percent employed in academia

4.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

17.3%

Percent employed in government

8.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

11.1%

Percent employed in law firms

54.2%

Percent employed in public interest

5.3%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.1%

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

1.3%

Graduates employed in-state

63%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

25

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

0.9%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

68.0%

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

3.6%

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

1.3%

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

19.6%

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

0.4%

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

0.0%

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

3.0%

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

2.2%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: Beginning with an individual meeting with every 1L student to assess his or her needs and initiate career development goals, the CSO teaches students the fundamentals of job searching and guides them through the job search process. In addition to identifying potential employment opportunities locally, regionally and nationally, the CSO also offers and runs a Pitt Law Attorney Networking Directory.

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

82.3%

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

10.6%

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)

5.8%

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)

1.3%