Profile Card: Class of 2027
*Data as of 10/05/2024, based on self-reported responses
- Applicants: 3,096
- Enrolled: 173 first-year students
- Percentage of graduates in full-time jobs that require bar passage or prefer a J.D. within 10 months of graduation, or pursuing a graduate degree (Class of 2023): 97% (Includes 10% in federal or state judicial clerkships)
- LSAT 75th/50th/25th Percentiles: 168/167/163
- GPA 75th/50th/25th Percentiles: 3.89/3.81/3.65
- Student-Faculty ratio (Fall 2023): 8:1
- First time bar pass for calendar year 2022 for all jurisdictions: 87%
- Average first-year section size (2022-23): 35
- Students of Color: 59%
- Gender:
- Female: 50%
- Male: 37%
- Transgender or Gender Diverse: 3%
- Member of the LGBTQIA Community: 31%
- First Generation: 27%
- Age Range: 20-45
- Average Age: 25
- Veterans: 3%
- Undergraduate Schools Represented: 69
- Languages spoken: 32
- California Residents: 84%
- Out-of-State Residents: 12%
- International: 4%
Legal Clinics
Core Clinics:
- Civil Rights Litigation Clinic
- Community & Economic Development Clinic
- Criminal Justice Clinic
- Domestic Violence Clinic
- Environmental Law Clinic
- Immigrant Rights Clinic
- Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic
- Press Freedom Project
- International Justice Clinic
- Ninth Circuit Appellate Litigation Clinic
- Workers, Law, and Organizing Clinic
Elective Clinics:
- Appellate Tax Clinic
- California State Tax Clinic
- Consumer Law Clinic
- International Human Rights Clinic
- Reproductive Justice Clinic
- Startup and Small Business Clinic
Every student is required to participate in one of the core clinics.
No Application Fee: Application Available Sept. 1, 2024
Application Deadlines:
- Early Decision Deadline: Nov. 15, 2024
- Regular Decision Deadline: March 31, 2024
UC Irvine School of Law National Accolades
UCI Law routinely receives high marks across the board.
Top Program
No. 2 in California and No. 13 in the U.S. for practical training (preLaw Magazine, 2024)
No. 16 for “best universities for law degrees” (Times Higher Education)
No. 19 for admissions selectivity (TaxProf Blog analysis of Princeton Review, 2024)
No. 24 for return on investment in earnings four years after graduation (The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce’s 2024 report)
No. 24 overall ranking, weighing admissions selectivity, academic experience, professors (teaching), professors (accessibility), and career rating (TaxProf Blog analysis of Princeton Review, 2024)
Commitment to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
A top law school for student support, including No. 1 for Asian students, No. 9 for Hispanic students and No. 25 for Black students (preLaw Magazine, 2024)No. 5 for the greatest resources for minority students (Princeton Review, 2024)
No. 5 for the greatest resources for minoirity students (Princeton Review, 2024)
No. 7 for the most diverse faculty (Princeton Review, 2023)
No. 18 and given an A grade among the most diverse law schools (preLaw Magazine, Above the Law, 2023)
Launch Your Legal Career
No. 1 in California (the only California school ranked) and No. 12 in the U.S. for having the most 2023 J.D. graduates in full-time, long-term, bar passage required jobs (Reuters, 2024)
No. 2 in California and No. 18 in the U.S. for federal clerkships (Law 360, 2024)
No. 20 for percentage of 2023 graduates in the largest 100 law firms (Law.com’s 2024 Go-To Law School Report)
No. 20 “Career Rating,” measuring the confidence students have in their school’s ability to lead them to fruitful employment opportunities, as well as the school’s own record of having done so (TaxProf Blog analysis of Princeton Review, 2024)
Extraordinary Faculty
No. 2 for best professors for teaching quality (Princeton Review, 2023)
No. 5 for faculty interdisciplinary impact for the second time in a row (Total Scholarly Impact Report: Law Professor Citations in Non-Law Journals)
Top public and No. 9 overall for faculty academic impact using SSRN download counts and the Hein citation metrics (Heald & Sichelman: The Top 100 Law School Faculties in Citations and Impact)
No. 22 for faculty scholarly impact (Sisk et al.’s 2024 Scholarly Impact Study, Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports)
Our Student Body’s Home States
- Arkansas
- Delaware
- Idaho
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Maryland
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- New Mexico
- North Dakota
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Utah
- West Virginia
Pro Bono Program
- 90% student participation since 2009
- 160,000+ total pro bono hours since 2009
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