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2007- 2008 Quick Facts

2007-08 Tuition
  • $17,846 Resident
  • $26,231 Non-Residents
2007 Entering J.D. Class Profile
  • 704 Students ( 569 J.D. and 135 LL.M. & Ph.D. )
  • Incoming class median GPA - 3.63; median LSAT - 162
  • 66% women; 25% students of color; 54% Washington residents; median age - 25
  • Students from almost 100 undergraduate institutions; 16% hold other graduate degrees
J.D. Concentration Tracks Asian Law, Dispute Resolution, Environmental Law, Health Law; Intellectual Property, International and Comparative Law
LL.M. Programs Asian & Comparative Law, Intellectual Property Law and Policy, Law of Sustainable International Development, Taxation
Faculty
  • 66 Full-time Faculty, including 26 women and 11 minority
  • 52 Part-time and Adjunct Faculty
  • 15 faculty hold endowed chairs/professorships
Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library
  • #1 Law Librarianship Program in the U.S.
  • Largest law library in the Northwest
  • 600,000 volumes and volume equivalents
  • Extensive Asian law collection
Clinics Berman Environmental Law, Children and Youth Advocacy, Entrepreneurial Law, Federal Tax, Immigration Law, Innocence Project Northwest, Mediation, Refugee and Immigrant Advocacy, Technology Law and Public Policy, Tribal Court Public Defense, Unemployment Compensation
Scholary Centers Asian Law Center, Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property, Native American Law Center, Shidler Center for Law, Commerce & Technology
Scholarly Journals
Career Services 99.4% Employment Rate for Class of 2006
  • 53.4% Private Practice
  • 15.6% Judicial Clerkships
  • 13.9% Government
  • 7.1% Business
  • 5.8% Public interest
  • 4.2% Academia
Bar Passage Rate 87.5% (July 2007)
Mentoring Programs Peer Advisors, Faculty Advisors, Professional Mentors
Financial Aid and Scholarships The UW School of Law offers a dozen loan programs and more than forty law school scholarships, including the William H. Gates Public Service Law Scholarship Program.