The University of Baltimore School of Law is one of the four colleges that make up theUniversity of Baltimore, which is part of theUniversity System of Maryland. The UBalt School of Law is one of only two law schools in the state ofMaryland, the other being theUniversity of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. The University of Baltimore School of Law is housed in the John and Frances Angelos Law Center, at the northeast corner of West Mount Royal Avenue and North Charles Street on theUniversity of Baltimore campus in the city'sMt. Vernon cultural district. The 12-story building, designed by German architect Stefan Behnisch, opened in April 2013 and was ratedLEED-Platinum by theU.S. Green Building Council.
For the class entering in 2024, the law school accepted 575 out of 1,164 applicants (a 49.40% acceptance rate), with 217 of those accepted enrolling, a 37.74% yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who enrolled). Seven students were not included in the acceptance statistics. The class consists of 224 students. The medianLSAT score was 153 and the median undergraduateGPA was 3.42. Three students were not included in the GPA calculation and two not included in the LSAT calculation. The reported 25th/75th percentile LSAT scores and GPAs were 151/156 and 3.10/3.63.[1]
Of the Class of 2017 graduates, 60.27% found employment in positions for which bar admission was required (i.e., as attorneys). An additional 12.5% of the Class of 2017 found employment in positions for which a J.D. was an advantage. (Of 224 graduates, 96.9% reported their employment status.) 25.45% of graduates secured state or local judicial clerkships, while none secured federal clerkships. Most graduates were employed in firms of 2 –10 members, with most graduates employed in Maryland, seven employed in the District of Columbia, and five employed in Virginia.[4]
The School of Law's total cost for full-time attendance (tuition and fees) is $31,954 for in-state residents and $46,622 for out-of-state residents for the 2018–2019 academic year. Students in Washington, D.C., and certain areas of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and northern Virginia are eligible to receive Maryland in-state tuition.
The UBalt School of Law offers thejuris doctor (J.D.) degree andmaster's degrees (LL.M.) intax andU.S. law. The school offers several concentrations for J.D. students, including:Business Law,Criminal Practice,Estate Planning,Family Law,Intellectual Property,International & Comparative Law,Litigation & Advocacy,Public and Governmental Service,Real Estate Practice andTax Law.
In conjunction with the law school's and University's other programs and schools, the law school offers joint degree combinations of JD/MBA, JD/MPA, JD/MS incriminal justice, JD/MS in negotiations and conflict management, JD/Ph.D. in policy science and JD/LL.M. in taxation.[5]
