Profile Card: Class of 2026
*Data as of 10/05/2023, based on self-reported responses
- Applicants: 2,629
- Enrolled: 151 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 2021): 90%
- LSAT 75th/50th/25th Percentiles: 169/167/164
- GPA 75th/50th/25th Percentiles: 3.84/3.72/3.49
- Student-Faculty ratio (Fall 2023): 7:1
- First time bar pass for calendar year 2022 for all jurisdictions: 84%
- Average first-year section size (2022-23): 40
- Students of Color: 53%
- Gender:
- Female: 50%
- Male: 45%
- Transgender or Gender Diverse: 3%
- Member of the LGBTQIA Community: 30%
- First Generation: 27%
- Age Range: 21-40
- Average Age: 26
- Veterans: 3%
- Undergraduate Schools Represented: 62
- Languages spoken: 32
- California Residents: 80%
- Out-of-State Residents: 16%
- 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, 2023
Application Deadlines:
- Early Decision Deadline: Nov. 15, 2023
- Regular Decision Deadline: March 15, 2024
UCI Law National Accolades
UCI Law routinely receives high marks across the board.
Top Program
No. 8 overall in analysis of Princeton Review’s Best Law Schools of 2023 (Princeton Review) (TaxProf Blog)
UCI Law received outstanding marks in these key categories, compiled by TaxProf Blog’s analysis:
- No. 2 Professors: Teaching
- No. 13 Admissions Selectivity
- No. 7 Professors (Teaching and Accessibility)
- No. 16 Professors: Accessibility
- No. 10 Academic Experience
- No. 17 Career Rating
Commitment to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
No. 1 for Asian students and No. 9 for Hispanic students in ranking
of best law schools for diversity (preLaw Magazine)
No. 7 for Most Diverse Faculty (Princeton Review)
No. 18 for most diverse law schools (preLaw Magazine)
Launch Your Legal Career
No. 1 in California and No. 7 in the nation for practical training (preLaw Magazine)
No. 22 in the nation for percentage of 2022 graduates in the largest 100 law firms (Law.com’s 2023 Go-To Law School Report)
Specialty Areas & Programs
Top grades (A) for business law, criminal law, international law and public policy; and top grades (A-) for legal technology and tax law (preLaw Magazine)
No. 1 graduate tax program on the West Coast, No. 5 in the nation among law schools with a graduate tax program (TaxProf Blog)
Extraordinary Faculty
No. 5 in the nation in faculty interdisciplinary scholarly impact (Total Scholarly Impact: Law Professor Citations in Non-Law Journals)
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. 14 in the nation in faculty scholarly impact (Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports)
We Change the World
No. 3 for community service hours per student (National Jurist survey)
Our Student Body’s Home States
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Pro Bono Program
- 90% student participation since 2009
- 150,000+ total pro bono hours since 2009
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