| University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign | |
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| Parent school | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Established | 1897; 129 years ago (1897) |
| School type | Publiclaw school |
| Parent endowment | $3.46 billion[1] |
| Dean | Jamelle C. Sharpe |
| Location | Champaign,Illinois, United States |
| Enrollment | 519 (fall 2023)[2] |
| Faculty | 137 (fall 2022)[2] |
| USNWR ranking | 48th (tie) (2025)[3] |
| Bar pass rate | 93.56% (2024; first-time takers)[4] |
| Website | law |
| ABA profile | Standard 509 Report |
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TheUniversity of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign[5] is thelaw school of theUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, apublicland-grantresearch university inChampaign andUrbana, Illinois. It was established in 1897 and offers theJuris Doctor,Master of Laws, andDoctor of Juridical Science degrees. The law school is located on the south end of the main University of Illinois campus in Champaign, nearMemorial Stadium and theState Farm Center.
The University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign was founded in 1897 and is acharter member of theAssociation of American Law Schools.[6] The lawhonor society known as theOrder of the Coif was founded at Illinois Law in 1902.
On September 11, 2011,The News-Gazette reported that the law school posted inaccurate information on its website about theLSAT scores andGPAs of its incoming first-year law students.[7] Two months later, the law school announced that a report commissioned fromJones Day andDuff & Phelps had found admission data for six of the seven previous years to have been manipulated by the AssistantDean of Admissions Paul Pless, that Pless had acted alone and would no longer work for the College.[8][9]
For the class entering in 2023, the law school accepted 43.69% of applicants, with 21.57% of those accepted enrolling. The median enrollee had a 165LSAT score and 3.75 undergraduateGPA.[2]
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The law school offers theJuris Doctor (J.D.), theprofessional degree in law, as well as theMaster of Laws (LL.M) andDoctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D.),academicgraduate degrees in law.
TheAlbert E. Jenner, Jr. Memorial Library is the college'slaw library.
The flagshiplaw review is theUniversity of Illinois Law Review; the law school also publishes two specialized law journals, theElder Law Journal and theJournal of Law, Technology & Policy.[10] The law school is also the home institution for theComparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, and forLaw and Philosophy.
According to the law school's official 2016ABA-required disclosures, 78.92% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment 10 months after graduation.[11] This was then the 19th highest out of alllaw schools in the United States.[12][failed verification]Law School Transparency under-employment score is 10.8%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2016 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job 10 months after graduation.[13]
In the 2024U.S. News & World Report ranking, the college was ranked 36th in the country, tied with four others.[3] In 2023,Above the Law ranked the college 19th in the nation.[14] In 1957, theChicago Sunday Tribune released the first modern rankings of law schools, and included Illinois among the top 10 law schools in America.[15]
Notable alumni includeAlbert E. Jenner Jr., namepartner at the law firmJenner & Block;Annette Lu,Vice President of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008; andPhilip McConnaughay,dean ofPeking University School of Transnational Law and former dean ofPenn State Dickinson Law.
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