Profile Card: Class of 2025
*Data as of Oct. 5, 2022
- Applicants: 2,802
- Enrolled: 172 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): 91%
- LSAT 75th/50th/25th Percentiles: 168/167/162
- GPA 75th/50th/25th Percentiles: 3.83/3.72/3.51
- Student-Faculty ratio: 8:1
- First time bar pass for calendar year 2021 for all jurisdictions: 89%
- Average first-year section size (2021-22): 36
- Students of Color: 58%
- Gender:
- Female: 53%
- Male: 45%
- Transgender or Gender Diverse: 1%
- Member of the LGBTQIA Community: 29%
- First Generation: 30%
- Age Range: 21-42
- Average Age: 25
- Veterans: 3%
- Undergraduate Schools Represented: 66
- Languages spoken: 39
- California Residents: 77%
- Out-of-State Residents: 15%
- International: 8%
Legal Clinics
Core Clinics:
- Civil Rights Litigation Clinic
- Community & Economic Development Clinic
- Consumer Law Clinic
- Criminal Justice Clinic
- Domestic Violence Clinic
- Environmental Law Clinic
- Immigrant Rights Clinic
- Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology
- Press Freedom Project
- International Justice Clinic
- Ninth Circuit Appellate Litigation Clinic
- Workers, Law, and Organizing Clinic
Elective Clinics:
- Appellate Tax Clinic
- California Sales Tax 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
Application Deadlines:
- Early Decision Deadline: Nov. 15, 2022
- Regular Decision Deadline: March 15, 2023
UCI Law National Accolades
No. 9 overall in an analysis of Princeton Review’s Best Law Schools of 2022 (TaxProf Blog)
No. 8 for “Best Professors,” No. 9 for “Most Diverse Faculty,” and No. 8 for “Most Liberal Students” UCI Law scored high – on a rating scale of 60-99 with 99 being the highest – in five key categories, including: Admissions Selectivity: 95; Academic Experience: 94; Professors: Teaching: 97; Professors: Accessibility: 97;
and Career Rating: 96 (Princeton Review)
Top grade (A-) for most diverse law schools (preLaw Magazine)
No. 5 Clinical Training (U.S. News)
No. 10 Legal Writing (U.S. News)
No. 4 for practical training (preLaw Magazine)
No. 21 in the nation for percentage of 2020 graduates in the largest 100 law firms (Law.com’s 2022 Go-To Law School report)
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. 1 graduate tax program on the West Coast, No. 5 in the nation among law
schools with a graduate tax program (TaxProf Blog)
No. 14 in the nation in faculty scholarly impact (Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports)
Top grade (A-) for legal technology among law schools (preLaw Magazine)
No. 17 among top racial justice schools (preLaw Magazine)
No. 20 Peer Reputation among law faculty (U.S. News)
No. 9 Tax Law (U.S. News)
No. 19 Intellectual Property (U.S. News)
No. 18 Constitutional Law (U.S. News)
No. 18 International Law (U.S. News)
No. 22 Dispute Resolution (U.S. News)
No. 24 Criminal Law (U.S. News)
No. 14 in the U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings (TaxProf Blog)
No. 1 for Asian students and No. 9 for Hispanic students in ranking of best law schools for diversity (preLaw Magazine)
No. 5 in the nation in faculty interdisciplinary scholarly impact (Total Scholarly Impact: Law Professor Citations in Non-Law Journals)
Our Student Body’s Home States
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Pro Bono Program
- 90% student participation since 2009
- 135,000+ 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