| Fall 2010 Admissions Information |
| Director of admissions
|
Beth Hall |
| Application deadline
|
04/01 |
| Full-time program application fee
|
$50
|
| Part-time program application fee
|
$50
|
| Besides the fall semester, can enter in
|
N/A |
| Fall 2008 Admissions and Enrollment Statistics |
| Total number of full- and part-time applicants
|
2,512 |
| Total number of full- and part-time acceptances
|
1,033 |
| Overall acceptance rate
|
41.1% |
| Total number of full- and part-time first-year
students enrolled
|
377 |
| Number of full-time program applicants
|
2,140 |
| Number of full-time program acceptances
|
936 |
| Full-time acceptance rate
|
43.7% |
| Number of first-year full-time students enrolled
|
324 |
| Number of part-time program applicants
|
372 |
| Number of part-time program acceptances
|
97 |
| Part-time acceptance rate
|
26.1% |
| Number of first-year part-time students enrolled
|
53 |
| Fall 2008 GPA and LSAT Scores |
| 25th-75th percentile GPA scores for all students
|
3.06-3.55 |
| 25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for all students
|
147-152 |
| 25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for
full-time students
|
3.06-3.56 |
| 25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for full-time
students
|
147-152 |
| 25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for
part-time students
|
2.93-3.39 |
| 25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for part-time
students
|
144-151 |
| Bar Statistics (Winter and Summer 2007 administrations) |
| State where the greatest number of first-time test
takers took the bar
|
FL |
| School's bar passage rate for first-time test
takers
|
75.7% |
| Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test
takers
|
77.6% |
| Class of 2007 Graduates |
| Total graduates
|
297 |
| Graduates employed at graduation
|
N/A |
| Graduates known to be employed nine months after
graduation
|
89.9% |
| Starting Salaries of 2007 Graduates Employed Full-time |
| 25th percentile private sector starting salary
|
$50,000
|
| Median private sector starting salary
|
$60,000
|
| 75th percentile private sector starting salary
|
$72,500
|
| Percent in the private sector who reported salary
information
|
78% |
| Median public service starting salary
|
$40,000
|
| Areas of Legal Practice (Class of 2007) |
| Percent employed in academia
|
3.0% |
| Percent employed in business and industry
|
18.0% |
| Percent employed in government
|
11.0% |
| Percent employed in all judicial clerkships
|
1.0% |
| Percent employed in law firms
|
60.0% |
| Percent employed in public interest
|
7.0% |
| Percent employed in an unknown field
|
0.0% |
| Percent employed in a judicial clerkship by an
Article III federal judge
|
0.3% |
| 2007 Graduates Employment Location |
| Graduates employed in-state
|
88% |
| Graduates employed in foreign countries
|
1% |
| Number of states where graduates are employed
|
16 |
| New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)
|
0.4% |
| Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)
|
3.4% |
| East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)
|
0.4% |
| West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD)
|
0.0% |
| South Atlantic (DE, DC, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA,
WV)
|
92.2% |
| East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN)
|
0.4% |
| West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)
|
0.0% |
| Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)
|
2.0% |
| Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY)
|
0.4% |
| Employment location unknown
|
0.0% |
| Career Services |
| Career services operations: The Career Development Office is staffed by four
professionals and several support staff. The office sponsors
on-campus interviewing, resume review, and mock interviewing. It
publishes a newsletter, maintains online job listings, and
participates in several job fairs. Practicing attorneys participate
in numerous lunch and learn programs, discussing their practice
areas with interested students. |
| Job Type |
| Bar admission required or anticipated (e.g.,
attorney and corporate counsel positions, law clerks, judicial
clerks)
|
76.0% |
| 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) |
13.0% |
| 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) |
2.0% |
