Facts at a Glance 2022

Facts at a Glance CURRENT AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

DEGREE PROGRAMS

CLASS OF 2025 PROFILE

Juris Doctor (JD) Dual Degree Programs: MPA, MPP, MBA, MSW, MRED and MCMP Master of Laws (LLM): Environmental and Natural Resources Law Master of Legal Studies (MLS) In-person option Online option

96 • students 53% • women 15% • students of color 40% • out-of-state 163 • median LSAT 158 to 164 • LSAT 25th to 75th percentile 3.87 • median undergrad GPA 3.71 to 3.95 • GPA 25th to 75th percentile

BAR PASSAGE RATE*

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROGRAM

92.9% • 2021 100% • 2020 96.2% • 2019 *Ultimate bar passage

FACULTY PROFILE 41 • full-time 53 • adjunct 56% • women 22% • faculty of color

FINANCIAL $33,634 • resident tuition, 2022-23 $43,589 • non-resident tuition, 2022-23 $56,666 • first-year cost of attendance, resident $66,792 • first-year cost of attendance, non-resident $87,493 • average class debt, Class of 2022

TOP 10 AMONG PUBLIC LAW SCHOOLS U.S. News & World Report Best Law Schools in 2023

SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS, 2022-23 $6,722,000 • total scholarship and fellowship awards 92% • students receiving scholarship or fellowship 38 • need-based scholarships $500-$4,500 • range of needbased awards 246 • merit scholarships and fellowships $250-$57,575 • range of merit scholarships $26,225 • average award of merit scholarships for Class of 2025

EMPLOYMENT, CLASS OF 2021 88 graduates, 88 reporting employment status 94% • employment rate 10 months after graduation (83/88) 93% • full-time (82/88) 1% • part-time (1/88) 93% • full-time J.D. required or advantage (82/88) 2.3% • enrolled in post-JD grad program (2/88)

EMPLOYMENT SNAPSHOT, CLASS OF 2021 4.8% • business (4/83) 55.4% • law firm (46/83) 12% • government (10/83) 9.6% • public interest (8/83) 12% • judicial clerkships (10/83) 6% • education (5/83) $70,000 • median salary $62,000 to $125,000 • 25%-75% salary range

278

TOTAL ENROLLMENT

92.9

%

ULTIMATE BAR PASSAGE RATE

4.3:1 STUDENT-TOFACULTY RATIO U.S. News & World Report Best Law Schools in 2023

A BEST VALUE LAW SCHOOL

PRELAW MAGAZINE, 2012-2022

S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW STUDENT BODY 278 • total enrollment 26 • average age 19 to 52 • age range 96 • colleges and universities represented 9% • have graduate degrees in 18 different disciplines 46% • are fluent in a foreign language

Office of Admissions 383 S. University Street Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (801) 581-7479 sjquinney.utah.edu/admissions admissions@law.utah.edu

PRO BONO

INITIATIVE Beginning their first year, students are eligible to volunteer with the Pro Bono Initiative (PBI), which provides students with opportunities to engage and serve the community while building lawyering skills.

Students who graduate with 50 or more hours of pro bono service receive a certificate of service and wear honors cords during commencement.

PBI also offers paid student director and fellowship opportunities for students dedicated to pro bono service. Brief legal advice sites include: • Immigration • Debtors counseling • Expungement & justice law • Family law • Rainbow law • Street law: Landlord/tenant, employment law

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN-HOUSE CLINICS Experiential learning—learning through practical experience— is a critical component of every student’s training at the S.J. Quinney College of Law. In experiential courses, including in-house clinics, externships, and simulations, students get hands-on experience and individualized training that bridges the gap between the classroom and real-world lawyering.

All students must complete six credits of experiential coursework before graduating.

Many students choose to do more. Visit sjquinney.utah. edu/experiential-learning for more information.

CREATIVE ADVOCACY LAB: The Creative Advocacy Lab explores modes of legal advocacy beyond traditional client representation, re-envisioning lawyers as community educators, problem-solvers, and storytellers. In collaboration with community partners, students use creative tools—like design thinking, narrative, plain language writing, and visual communication—to make legal information accessible to those who need it.

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CLINIC: The Environmental Justice Clinic partners with low-income communities and communities of color to challenge the inequitable distribution of environmental burdens and benefits and ensure meaningful participation in environmental decision-making. Students enrolled in the clinic use a range of tools and an interdisciplinary approach to advance environmental justice.

REFUGEE LAW CLINIC: The Refugee Law Clinic offers students the opportunity to represent refugees and other immigrants who are seeking protection from persecution in their country of origin. The clinic partners with organizations serving the refugee and immigrant community in Utah.

Students assist clients with accessing resettlement benefits (including work authorization), applications for asylum and other humanitarian forms of protection, and other legal projects and policy initiatives to advocate on behalf of the immigrant and refugee community.

EXTERNSHIPS In externships, students earn academic credit while gaining practical skills and training under licensed attorneys in the field. Utah Law has a wide variety of externship placements in over a hundred different settings across more than a dozen different areas of law, and new placements are developed every semester.

SIMULATIONS Simulation courses engage students in dynamic, realworld lawyering tasks based on hypothetical scenarios.

From the annual simulation in Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism to closing arguments in Trial Advocacy, from conceptualizing largescale projects in Real Estate Development to drafting divorce settlement agreements in Family Law Practice Lab, students build concrete skills to be ready for practice.

The perfect environment for a law school.