Utah Law by the Numbers CURRENT AS OF OCTOBER 5, 2023
DEGREE PROGRAMS
CLASS OF 2026 PROFILE
Juris Doctor (JD) Dual Degree Programs: MPA, MPP, MBA, MSW, MRED and MCMP Master of Laws (LLM): Environmental and Natural Resources Law Master of Legal Studies (MLS) In-person option Online option
97 • students 54% • women 14% • students of color 45% • out-of-state 164 • median LSAT 160 to 166 • LSAT 25th to 75th percentile 3.85 • median undergrad GPA 3.65 to 3.95 • GPA 25th to 75th percentile
FACULTY PROFILE 38 • full-time 69 • adjunct 53% • women 26% • faculty of color
FINANCIAL, 2023-24 $33,634 • resident tuition $43,598 • non-resident tuition $61,770 • first-year cost of attendance, resident $71,801 • first-year cost of attendance, non-resident $73,400 • average class debt, Class of 2023
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SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS, 2023-24 92% • students receiving scholarship or fellowship 58 • need-based scholarships $500-$5,000 • range of needbased awards 260 • merit scholarships and fellowships $150-$47,584 • range of merit scholarships $29,106 • average award of merit scholarships for Class of 2026
EMPLOYMENT, CLASS OF 2022 105 graduates, 105 reporting employment status 98% • employment rate 10 months after graduation (103/105) 96% • full-time (101/105) 1.9% • part-time (2/105) 95% • full-time J.D. required or advantage (100/105) 1% • enrolled in post-JD grad program (1/105)
EMPLOYMENT SNAPSHOT, CLASS OF 2022 6% • business (6/103) 53% • law firm (55/103) 16% • government (16/103) 9% • public interest (9/103) 13% • judicial clerkships (13/103) 4% • education (4/103) $98,750 • median salary $72,250 - $162,500 • 25%-75% salary range
291
TOTAL ENROLLMENT
94.2
%
FIRST-TIME BAR PASSAGE RATE (2022)
4.7:1 STUDENT-TOFACULTY RATIO U.S. News & World Report Best Law Schools in 2024
S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW STUDENT BODY 291 • total enrollment 26 • average age 20 to 53 • age range 108 • colleges and universities represented 8% • have graduate degrees in 16 different disciplines 46% • are fluent in a foreign language
Office of Admissions 383 S. University Street Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (801) 581-7479 sjquinney.utah.edu/admissions admissions@law.utah.edu
PRO BONO
INITIATIVE Beginning their first year, students are eligible to volunteer with the Pro Bono Initiative (PBI), which provides students with opportunities to engage and serve the community while building lawyering skills. Students who graduate with 50 or more hours of pro bono service receive a certificate of service and wear honors cords during commencement. PBI also offers paid student director and fellowship opportunities for students dedicated to pro bono service. Brief legal advice sites include: • Immigration • Debtors counseling • Expungement & justice law • Family law • Rainbow law • Street law: Landlord/tenant, employment law Visit sjquinney.utah.edu/ pro-bono-initiative for more information.
EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION Experiential education is a critical component of every student’s training at Utah Law. In experiential courses—including in-house clinics, field placements, and simulations—students get hands-on experience and individualized training that bridges the gap between the classroom and real-world lawyering. Visit sjquinney.utah.edu/ experiential-education for more information.
IN-HOUSE CLINICS Environmental Justice Clinic The Environmental Justice Clinic partners with low-income communities and communities of color to challenge the inequitable distribution of environmental burdens and benefits and ensure meaningful participation in environmental decision-making. Students use a range of tools and an interdisciplinary approach to advance environmental justice.
Post-Conviction Clinic
FIELD PLACEMENTS
Students in the Post-Conviction Clinic work on cases where the client has been convicted of a crime, completed their direct appeals, and exhausted all processes constitutionally guaranteed to someone accused of a crime. Students assist with investigating and litigating cases where the client claims either that they are innocent, or that their constitutional rights have been violated.
In field placements, students earn academic credit while gaining practical skills and training under licensed attorneys in the field. Utah Law has a wide variety of field placements in over 100 different settings across more than a dozen different areas of law, and new placements are developed every semester.
Refugee Law Clinic
SIMULATIONS
In the Refugee Law Clinic, students represent refugees and other immigrants who are seeking protection from persecution in their country of origin. Students assist clients with accessing resettlement benefits, applications for asylum and other humanitarian forms of protection, and other legal projects and policy initiatives to advocate on behalf of the immigrant and refugee community.
Simulation courses engage students in dynamic, real-world lawyering tasks based on hypothetical scenarios. From the annual simulation in Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism to closing arguments in Trial Advocacy, from conceptualizing large-scale projects in Real Estate Development to drafting divorce settlement agreements in Family Law Practice Lab, students build concrete skills to be ready for practice.
Environmental Policy Accelerator (EPA) The EPA develops legal and policy analysis to assist policymakers confronting pressing environmental challenges, such as water conservation and the shrinking Great Salt Lake.
The perfect environment for a law school.
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