University of Notre Dame

1100 Eck Hall of Law, P.O. Box 780
Notre Dame, IN 46556-0780
(574) 631-6626

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National Comparison: Overview of Facts

#20 in Acceptance Rate

Notre Dame Law ranks #20 in terms of student selectivity with an acceptance rate of 25.1% among those who applied for admission.

#21 in Median LSAT

Notre Dame Law is tied for #21 in terms of the median LSAT score (165) among those applicants granted admission who enrolled as full-time students. The LSAT measures reading comprehension, analytical reasoning, and logical reasoning.

#23 in Employment Rate at Graduation

#33 in Employment Rate at 10 Months
Notre Dame Law ranks #23 in terms of graduates employed at the time of graduation (71.0%) and #33 in terms of graduates employed ten months after graduation (86.0%).

#24 in Highest Tuition

Notre Dame Law ranks #24 in terms of highest tuition among full-time law students ($58,358). We rank from a total of 283 tuition rates from 194 law schools, ranking twice those law schools that have different in-state and out-of-state tuition rates.

#26 in Private Sector Salary

Notre Dame Law is tied for #26 in terms of the median starting salary among graduates working in private practice as law firm associates ($130,000).

#28 in Library Size

Notre Dame Law ranks #28 in terms of library size with 746,789 volumes or equivalents.

#31 in Median Undergraduate GPA

Notre Dame Law ranks #31 in terms of highest median undergraduate GPA (3.71) among those applicants granted admission who enrolled as full-time students.

#61 in Student to Faculty Ratio

Notre Dame Law is tied for #61 in terms of lowest student to faculty ratio (6.3:1).

#69 in Public Sector Salary

Notre Dame Law is tied for #69 in terms of median starting salary among graduates working in government jobs or judicial clerkships at the federal or state level ($56,275).

#71 in Bar Passage Rate

Notre Dame Law ranks #71 in terms of bar passage rate among first-time test takers (84.1%), and it outperforms by +5.1% the state of Illinois’s overall bar passage rate of 79.0%. (A national comparison on this metric should be taken in a qualified sense and with caution, because every state has a different bar passage rate.)

#103 in Presence of Minority Students

Notre Dame Law ranks #103 in terms of the highest percentage of students who are racial or ethnic minority (31.3%).

#155 in Presence of Female Faculty

Notre Dame Law is tied for #155 in terms of the highest percentage of faculty who are female (33.1%).

#165 in Presence of Minority Faculty

Notre Dame Law ranks #165 in terms of the highest percentage of faculty who are racial or ethnic minority (8.3%).

Fall 2020 Application Information

Application Deadline: March 15
Application Fee: $75

Admissions Statistics

2020 2017
Acceptance Rate 25.1% 35.0%
LSAT Score (Median) 165 163
LSAT Score (25th-75th percentile) 159-166 161-165
GPA (Median) 3.71 3.63
GPA Range (25th-75th percentile) 3.49-3.89 3.46-3.79

Bar Exam Statistics

2020 2017
State in which most graduates took bar exam: IL IL
School's bar passage rate: 84.1% 93.9%
State overall bar passage rate: 79.0% 85.0%
School bar pass rate vs. state bar pass rate: +5.1% +8.9%

Employment Statistics

2020 2017
Graduates employed at graduation: 71.0% 62.6%
Graduates employed 10 months after graduation: 86.0% 85.5%

Tuition and Expenses

2020 2017
Tuition: $58,358 $52,372
Room and Board: $10,100 $9,700
Proportion of full-time students receiving grants: 88.2% 68.2%
Median grant amount among full-time students: $25,000 $20,000
Average indebtedness of those who incurred debt: $122,814 $122,822
Proportion of graduates who incurred debt: 75.7% 72.1%
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Students & Faculty

2020 2017
Total Students: 587 581
Men: 50.8% 58.7%
Women: 49.2% 41.3%
Student Racial Demographics:

White: 68.7% N/A
Black: 5.8% N/A
Hispanic: 8.7% N/A
Asian: 7.3% N/A
Student-to-Faculty Ratio: 6.3 : 1 N/A
Total Faculty: 157 N/A
Male: 66.9% N/A
Female: 33.1% N/A
Minority: 8.3% N/A

Full-Time Starting Salaries

2020 2017
Private Sector (Median): $130,000 $112,500
Public Sector (Median): $56,275 $44,000
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Library Resources

2020 2017
Volumes and equivalents: 746,789 742,878