Offers 48% Acceptance Rate 190 Enrolled Not all law schools are alike. Marquette is small, personal, and decidedly practical. It is also highly professional, with outstanding programs and experiential opportunities. Values and tradition set Marquette University Law School apart, and what you’ll find here is camaraderie, not competition. Professors and staff will know you by name. Even the Dean puts out a welcome mat and follows an open-door policy. Moreover, at Marquette you can have a life while you learn the law. We offer flexible scheduling and a part-time option. And we’ll help you get to know Milwaukee, a beautiful and exciting city filled with opportunities.

#86 in Employment Rate at Graduation

#98 in Employment Rate at 10 Months
Marquette Law ranks #86 in terms of graduates employed at the time of graduation (47.6%) and #98 in terms of graduates employed ten months after graduation (77.0%).

#93 in Highest Tuition

Marquette Law ranks #93 in terms of highest tuition among full-time law students ($46,170). 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.

#98 in Acceptance Rate

Marquette Law ranks #98 in terms of student selectivity with an acceptance rate of 48.1% among those who applied for admission.

#99 in Library Size

Marquette Law ranks #99 in terms of library size with 417,279 volumes or equivalents.

#102 in Median LSAT

Marquette Law is tied for #102 in terms of the median LSAT score (154) among those applicants granted admission who enrolled as full-time students. The LSAT measures reading comprehension, analytical reasoning, and logical reasoning.

#105 in Median Undergraduate GPA

Marquette Law ranks #105 in terms of highest median undergraduate GPA (3.42) among those applicants granted admission who enrolled as full-time students.

#118 in Presence of Female Faculty

Marquette Law is tied for #118 in terms of the highest percentage of faculty who are female (37.5%).

#131 in Public Sector Salary

Marquette Law is tied for #131 in terms of median starting salary among graduates working in government jobs or judicial clerkships at the federal or state level ($50,000).

#132 in Student to Faculty Ratio

Marquette Law is tied for #132 in terms of lowest student to faculty ratio (8.0:1).

#163 in Private Sector Salary

Marquette Law is tied for #163 in terms of the median starting salary among graduates working in private practice as law firm associates ($56,500).

#165 in Presence of Minority Faculty

Marquette Law ranks #165 in terms of the highest percentage of faculty who are racial or ethnic minority (8.3%).

#170 in Presence of Minority Students

Marquette Law ranks #170 in terms of the highest percentage of students who are racial or ethnic minority (21.1%).

About this Report

This report was released in spring 2019.

GPA & LSAT

References to the lowest, median, and highest GPA and LSAT scores reflect those of the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile, respectively, among those applicants granted admission who enrolled as full-time students in fall 2018.

Acceptance Rates

The acceptance rate is that of applicants granted admission as full-time students for classes commencing in fall 2018. The acceptance rate of the applicants does not reflect actual enrollment rates, a subset figure.

Student-to-Faculty Ratios

The student-to-faculty ratio shows the number of students for that class per faculty member. This ratio reflects the applicants granted admission who enrolled as full-time students in fall 2018.

Bar Passage Rates

The bar passage rates reflect those among first-time test takers for the winter and summer 2017 administrations of the bar examinations. The state noted is that in which the greatest number of the law school’s graduates took the bar exam for the reported period.

Employment Rates

The employment rates shown are those of the 2017 full-time graduates at the time of graduation and ten months after graduation.

Law Library Volumes

The data indicate the number of print and microform volumes, as well as volume equivalents.

Gender, Race & Ethnicity

The data shown indicate the percentage of the faculty that are male and female, respectively, and the percentage of the faculty and students that are racial or ethnic minority (Hispanics of any race, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, multiracial, non-resident alien, or unknown race).

Salaries

The salary statistics are those of full-time, long-term employed law graduates for the class of 2017 at the time of graduation and within ten months after graduation (approximately spring 2018 ), as self-reported by the graduates.

The salaries indicated for “Median Salary Private” reflect those salaries of the 50th percentile, among those graduates working in private practice as law firm associates. The salaries indicated for “Median Salary Public” reflect those salaries of the 50th percentile, among those graduates working in government jobs or judicial clerkships at the federal or state level.

In determining median salaries, jobs classified as “JD advantage” have been excluded (i.e., positions in which the employer requires a JD or considers it an advantage to hold such a degree, but in which admission to the bar is not required)

Fall 2020 Application Information
Application Deadline:	April 1
Application Fee:	$50

Admissions Statistics	2020	2017
Acceptance Rate	48.1%	77.0%
LSAT Score (Median)	154	153
LSAT Score (25th-75th percentile)	150-156	150-155
GPA (Median)	3.42	3.16
GPA Range (25th-75th percentile)	3.16-3.61	2.89-3.42

Bar Exam Statistics	2020	2017
State in which most graduates took bar exam:	WI	WI
School’s bar passage rate:	N/A	N/A
State overall bar passage rate:	77.1%	80.7%
School bar pass rate vs. state bar pass rate:	N/A	N/A

Employment Statistics	2020	2017
Graduates employed at graduation:	47.6%	36.0%
Graduates employed 10 months after graduation:	77.0%	67.8%

Tuition and Expenses	2020	2017
Tuition:	$46,170	$42,270
Room and Board:	$13,314	$13,843
Proportion of full-time students receiving grants:	73.9%	63.7%
Median grant amount among full-time students:	$16,000	$8,000
Average indebtedness of those who incurred debt:	$143,672	$138,549
Proportion of graduates who incurred debt:	80.8%	86.4%