Vanderbilt University

Director of admissions

Todd Morton

Application deadline

03/15

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

4,336

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

1,057

Overall acceptance rate

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

191

Number of full-time program applicants

4,336

Number of full-time program acceptances

1,057

Full-time acceptance rate

24.4%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

191

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

3.52-3.86

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

164-169

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

NY

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

80.0%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

76.7%

Total graduates

224

Graduates employed at graduation

96.3%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$113,000

Median private sector starting salary

$145,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$160,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

78%

Median public service starting salary

$50,000

Percent employed in academia

1.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

5.0%

Percent employed in government

5.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

14.0%

Percent employed in law firms

71.0%

Percent employed in public interest

4.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

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

8.0%

Graduates employed in-state

15%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

2%

Number of states where graduates are employed

29

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

2.0%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

12.0%

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

13.0%

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

1.0%

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

32.0%

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

21.0%

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

7.0%

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

7.0%

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

3.0%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: The Career Services Office fosters a highly personalized working relationship between students and counselors and provides a number of job-seeking venues: On Campus Interviews representing 500 different locations, Non-Visiting Resume Collection with over 600 opportunities, nearly 20 Job Fairs, and individual contacts with employers. Virtually all students are employed six months after graduation.

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

96.0%

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

4.0%

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%