Profile Card: Class of 2024
*Data as of Oct. 5, 2021
- Applicants: 3,600
- Enrolled: 170 first-year students
- Average first-year section size (2019-20): 35
- Student-Faculty ratio: 7:1
- First time bar pass for calendar year 2019 for all jurisdictions: 86%
- 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 2020): 83%
- 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: 168/167/163
- GPA 75th/50th/25th Percentiles: 3.80/3.69/3.50
- Students of Color (Self-Identified): 55%
- Gender:
- Female: 52%
- Male: 46%
- Non-binary or Transgender: 2%
- Member of the LGBTQIA Community: 28%
- First Generation: 25%
- Age Range: 21-58
- Average Age: 25
- Veterans: 3%
- Undergraduate Schools Represented: 85
- Languages spoken: 26
- California Residents: 70%
- Out-of-State Residents: 23%
- International: 7%
Legal Clinics
Core Clinics: Civil Rights Litigation, Community & Economic Development, Consumer Law, Criminal Justice, Domestic Violence, Environmental Law, Immigrant Rights, Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology, International Justice, Ninth Circuit Appellate Litigation and Workers, Law, and Organizing
Elective Clinics: Appellate Litigation Clinic for Veterans, Appellate Tax, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing Civil Rights, California State Tax, International Human Rights, Reproductive Justice, and Startup and Small Business
Every student is required to participate in one of the core clinics.
No Application Fee: Application Available Sept. 1
- Early Decision Deadline: Nov. 15, 2020
- Regular Decision Deadline: March 15, 2021
UCI Law National Accolades
- No. 6 Clinical Training (U.S. News)
- Top Grade (A-) for Most Diverse Law Schools (preLaw Magazine)
- No. 5 in the Nation in Faculty Interdisciplinary Scholarly Impact (Total Scholarly Impact: Law Professor Citations
- in Non-Law Journals)
- No. 24 in the Nation for Percentage of 2020 Graduates in the Largest 100 Law Firms (Law.com’s 2021 Go-To Law School Hiring Report)
- No. 6 in California for Recent Graduates in Federal Judicial Clerkships and No. 4 for State Judicial Clerkships (Law.com’s 2021 Law Grad Hiring Report)
- No. 9 Practical Training (preLaw Magazine)
- No. 3 for Community Service Hours per Student (National Jurist Survey)
- No. 9 in the Nation and Top Public University for Faculty Academic Impact (Heald & Sichelman: The Top 100 Law School Faculties in Citations and Impact)
- No. 12 in the Nation in Faculty Scholarly Impact (Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports)
- No. 1 Graduate Tax Program on the West Coast, No. 5 in the Nation among Law Schools with a Graduate Tax Program (TaxProf Blog)
- Top Grade (A-) for Legal Technology among Law Schools (preLaw Magazine)
- No. 9 Legal Writing (U.S. News)
- No. 17 among Top Racial Justice Schools (preLaw Magazine)
- No. 19 Peer Reputation among Law Faculty (U.S. News)
- No. 6 Tax Law (U.S. News)
- No. 19 Intellectual Property (U.S. News)
- No. 20 Constitutional Law (U.S. News)
- No. 22 International Law (U.S. News)
- No. 24 Dispute Resolution (U.S. News)
- No. 27 Criminal Law (U.S. News)
- No. 14 in the U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings (TaxProf Blog)
- No. 2 for Asian Students and No. 24 for Hispanic Students in Ranking of Best Law Schools for Diversity (preLaw Magazine)
UCI Law Class of 2020 Employment
- Law firms: 59%
- Public Interest: 19%
- Government: 9%
- Clerkships: 7%
- Business & Industry: 5%
- Education: 1%
*Employment statistics are based off of 117 out of 143 graduates employed 10 months after graduation.
Pro Bono Program
93% Student Participation Since 2009
15,000+ Pro Bono Hours+ (2020-21)
123,787+ Total Pro Bono Hours Since 2009
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 Nov. 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
Please contact us at:
Office of Admissions and Student Financial Services
admissions@law.uci.edu