Admission & Employment Statistics
The University of Maine School of Law currently has a student/faculty ratio of 15.3:1. Acceptance to Maine Law is competitive. Applications were up 62% for the class of 2013. Approximately 37% of applicants are admitted, with 60% coming from Maine. The median LSAT score is 156, and the average GPA is 3.4. Roughly 52% of students are female, and 48% are male. Approximately 7% of this year's first year class are members of a racial minority group.
On average, 92.5% of students pass the bar on their first attempt. Nine months after graduation, 95.8% of Maine Law graduates are employed. With nearly 3/4 of the student body coming from Maine, it is also the state in which a majority take their bar examination. Graduates of Maine Law can expect to make, on average, $60,000 a year in the private sector immediately following their graduation.
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