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#25 in Acceptance Rate
UW Law ranks #25 in terms of student selectivity with an acceptance rate of 26.4% among those who applied for admission.
UW Law is tied for #26 in terms of lowest student to faculty ratio (5.4:1).
#29 in Median LSAT
UW Law is tied for #29 in terms of the median LSAT score (163) among those applicants granted admission who enrolled as full-time students. The LSAT measures reading comprehension, analytical reasoning, and logical reasoning.
UW Law ranks #33 in terms of library size with 705,321 volumes or equivalents.
#35 in Median Undergraduate GPA
UW Law ranks #35 in terms of highest median undergraduate GPA (3.69) among those applicants granted admission who enrolled as full-time students.
#37 in Private Sector Salary
UW Law is tied for #37 in terms of the median starting salary among graduates working in private practice as law firm associates ($100,000).
UW Law is tied for #53 in terms of median starting salary among graduates working in government jobs or judicial clerkships at the federal or state level ($59,000).
#60 in Bar Passage Rate
UW Law ranks #60 in terms of bar passage rate among first-time test takers (85.7%), and it outperforms by +11.6% the state of Washington's overall bar passage rate of 74.1%. (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.)
#69 in Employment Rate at Graduation
#105 in Employment Rate at 10 Months
UW Law ranks #69 in terms of graduates employed at the time of graduation (52.5%) and #105 in terms of graduates employed ten months after graduation (76.3%).
#70 in Presence of Minority Students
UW Law ranks #70 in terms of the highest percentage of students who are racial or ethnic minority (37.2%).
#80 in Presence of Minority Faculty
UW Law ranks #80 in terms of the highest percentage of faculty who are racial or ethnic minority (13.8%).
#172 in Highest Tuition (in-state)
UW Law ranks #84 in terms of highest tuition among full-time law students for its out-of state tuition of $47,190, and it ranks #172 in terms of highest tuition among full-time law students for its in-state tuition of $35,988. 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. Room and board expenses average $15,936 per year.
#89 in Presence of Female Faculty
UW Law is tied for #89 in terms of the highest percentage of faculty who are female (40.6%).
Application Deadline: March 15
State in which most graduates took bar exam: WA WA
School bar pass rate vs. state bar pass rate: +11.6% +4.4%
Median grant amount among full-time students: $15,000 $9,000
Asian: 11.4% N/A