By the Numbers: Class of 2023
*Data as of October 5, 2020
- Applicants: 3,093
- Enrolled: 147 first-year students
- Average first-year section size (2019-20): 39
- Student-Faculty ratio: 8:1
- First time bar pass for calendar year 2019 for all jurisdictions: 81%
- 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 2019): 89%
- Number of customized concurrent degrees that students can propose: Virtually limitless
- Percentage of students who will participate in UCI Law's clinical program prior to graduation: 100%
- LSAT 75th/50th/25th Percentiles: 167/166/163
- GPA 75th/50th/25th Percentiles: 3.76/3.61/3.40
- Students of color (self-identified): 53%
- Gender:
- Female: 63%
- Male: 35%
- Non-binary or Transgender: 2%
- Member of the LGBTQIA community: 19%
- First Generation: 24%
- Age range: 20-40
- Average age: 25
- Undergraduate schools represented: 75
- Languages spoken: 28
Legal Clinics
Core Clinics: Appellate Litigation, Civil Rights Litigation, Community & Economic Development, Consumer Law, Criminal Justice, Domestic Violence, Environmental Law, Immigrant Rights, Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology, and International Justice
Elective Clinics: Appellate Litigation Clinic for Veterans, Appellate Tax, California Sales Tax, Department of Fair Employment and Housing Civil Rights, International Human Rights, Reproductive Justice, Startup and Small Business
Every student is required to participate in one of the core clinics.
UCI Law National Accolades
No. 1 college in Money magazine ranking of the nation’s “Best Colleges”
No. 1 most diverse law school in the top 30 (U.S. News Diversity Index)
No. 27 in the nation for Best Law Schools (U.S. News & World Report). Other U.S. News
specialty rankings include:
- No. 8 Clinical Training
- No. 9 Diversity
- No. 11 Legal Writing
- No. 11 Tax Law
- No. 17 Criminal Law
- No. 19 Constitutional Law
- No. 25 Intellectual Property Law
No. 12 in the nation in faculty scholarly impact. Seven individual faculty members are among the most cited in their fields, including Intellectual Property & Cyberlaw, Tax Law, Health Law, Election Law, Antitrust, Law & Social Science, and International Law & Security (Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports)
No. 3 among all law schools in community service hours per student (National Jurist survey)
UCI Law is a top law school in the country for practical training with an A+ grade, one of only 19 law schools nationally to receive top honors (preLaw Magazine)
No. 26 in the nation for federal clerkships, No. 3 in the state of California (Excess of Democracy)
No Application Fee: Application available Sept. 1
- Early Decision Deadline: November 15, 2020
- Regular Decision Deadline: March 15, 2021
Please contact us at:
Office of Admissions and Student Financial Services
admissions@law.uci.edu
Required Disclosure:
Please note that federal regulations require higher education programs that are intended to meet professional licensure and certification requirements to disclose to students whether the program meets licensure and certification requirements in other states. The regulations, which were enacted on November 1, 2019, can be found at 34 CFR §668.43(a)(5)(v) (https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2019-23129.pdf). The License and Certification Disclosures for the University of California can be
found here: https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/content-analysis/academic-planning/licensure-and-certification-disclosures.html