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Law School Profile

The Law School is noted for its exceptional and accessible faculty and a highly competitive admissions process that results in highly credentialed students. With one of the largest law libraries in the country, student and faculty-edited journals, LL.M. and dual and joint degree programs, and a nationally recognized clinical education program, the Law School is truly a school of opportunities.

2012-13 Profile

Tuition & Fees
Resident: $36,820 (excludes optional health insurance)
Nonresident: $45,484 (excludes optional health insurance)
Optional Health Insurance: $1,900
Student Body 854 students: 759 J.D., 13 international visiting, 47 LL.M. (18 countries represented)
Class of 2015* Applied: 3,225; Enrolled: 205

LSAT Median: 167
25-75 Percentile: 158-168

GPA Median: 3.8
25-75 Percentile: 3.36-3.89

Class Composition:
Male 59%; Female 41%; Minorities 24%

36 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico
7 foreign countries
120+ undergraduate institutions
32% Minnesota residents
68% nonresidents

40+ student organizations
Degrees Offered Juris Doctor (J.D.)
Master of Law (LL.M.)
J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.P.A;
J.D./M.A., J.D./M.B.S., J.D./M.P.P., J.D./M.S., J.D./M.D., J.D./M.P., J.D./M.B.T., J.D./M.U.R.P., J.D./M.P.H., J.D./M.S.S.T., J.D./M.H.A., and J.D./Ph.D., through the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, or the Joint Degree Program in Law, Health and the Life Sciences at the University of Minnesota, as well as various other colleges and departments
Faculty 10.9:1 student to faculty ratio
69 full-time law faculty
12 clinical faculty, 31 University-affiliated faculty, 207 adjunct faculty
32 faculty members hold endowed chairs/professorships
34 permanent endowed chairs/professorships
Law Library 7th largest law library in the U.S.
1,000,000+ volumes and volume equivalents
330 study carrels
773 total seating
Clinics 24 clinical education courses
Over 50% of students take at least one live-client clinical course (national average is 25%):
Bankruptcy
Business Law
Child Advocacy & Juvenile Justice
Civil Rights Enforcement
Community Mediation
Consumer Protection
Criminal Defense Appeals
Criminal Prosecution Appeals
Environmental Sustainability: Land Use &
    Water Policy
Federal Defense
Housing Law
Human Rights Litigation and International
    Legal Advocacy
Immigration and Human Rights Law
Indian Child Welfare (ICWA)
Innocence Project
Insurance Law
Misdemeanor Defense
Misdemeanor Prosecution
Misdemeanor Prosecution/Defense (2 sem.)
Philip C. Carruthers Public Interest Law
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi Civil Practice
Ronald M. Mankoff Tax
Special Education Law
Workers' Rights
Scholarly Journals ABA Journal of Labor and Employment Law
Constitutional Commentary
Crime and Justice
Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and
   Practice

Minnesota Journal of International Law
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology
Minnesota Law Review

199 students participate on a journal
Research Institutes Consortium on Law and Values in Health,
   Environment & the Life Sciences
Corporate Institute
Human Rights Center
Institute on Crime and Public Policy
Institute for Law and Economics
Institute for Law and Rationality
Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity
Robina Institute of Criminal Law and
   Criminal Justice
Exchange Programs Semester Exchange Programs
Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany
ESADE Faculty of Law, Barcelona, Spain
Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Tilburg University Faculty of Law, Tilburg,
   Netherlands
Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon, France
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay
University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

Summer International Program
Renmin University, Beijing, China
Career Center Please visit the Career Facts & Statistics page for information on Class of 2011 graduates known to be employed as of February 24, 2012.
Alumni Number of living alumni: 12,411
(in 50 states and over 53 countries; more than 250 federal and state judges nationwide [2008])
Endowment $87.3 million (as of August 2012)

*LSAT/UGPA percentiles were calculated by the Law School Admission Council based on matriculant lists provided by the University of Minnesota Law School to the ABA.

October 5, 2012. Subject to change.

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