UC Berkeley School of Law Stats

By the Numbers

Established: 1894
Number of Students: 865

Student Body Demographics:
Minority: 33.3%
African-American: 4.4%
American Indian: 1.6%
Asian-American: 18.3%
Mexican-American: 4.2%
Hispanic: 4.9%
International: 1.7%

Men: 45.2%
Women: 54.8%

Number of Professors: 53
Student-to-Faculty Ratio: 12.2 to 1

Tuition: Resident: $30,943; Nonresident: $43,188
Number of Applicants: 7,390
Number of Acceptances: 838
Yield: 32%

% graduates entering different occupations 2007:
Government: 5.8%
Public Interest: 10.2%
Judicial Clerks: 12.2%
Academia: 0.3%
Law Firms: 69.2%
Business/Industry: 2.4%

Bar Passage Rate: 82%

Contact

Admissions Office
5 Boalt Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
Admissions phone: (510) 642-2274
Admissions e-mail: admissions@law.berkeley.edu

Academics

Specialized programs: Business, Law and Economics; Comparative Legal Studies; Environmental Law; International Legal Studies; Law and Technology; Social Justice

Special institutes or centers: Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice; Berkeley Center for Law, Business, and the Economy; Berkeley Center for Law and Technology; California Center for Environmental Law and Policy; Institute for Global Challenges and the Law; Center for the Study of Law and Society; Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity; Institute for Legal Research