Overview

Applicants
1,433
Acceptance Rate
53%
Median Undergrad GPA
3.76
Accepted Applicants Who Attend
153

Test Scores

LSAT
25th-75th percentile
(enrolled students)
155 - 162

Application Process

Rolling Admissions
Yes

Application Fee
$50

CAS Service Used
Yes

Applicants accepted in terms other than fall
Yes

Transfer Applicants Accepted
Yes

Deferred Admission
Yes

Other Admission Factors

Academic

LSAT Score
Undergraduate GPA

Selectivity Rating

Faculty Information

Student/Faculty
8:1
Total Faculty
91

40
Female
8
Underrepresented Minorities


Students Say

Students at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law enjoy “first-rate resources and education” at “an excellent value.” The law school boasts no fewer than nineteen clinical programs and projects including a community legal clinic, an entrepreneurship law clinic, and an inmate legal assistance project. Externship programs include the Semester Public Interest Program, which allows 3Ls to earn credit for public interest internships with government agencies and nonprofits in Washington, D.C. Students can study in Paris, Florence, Barcelona, Beijing, Auckland, and a host of other international cities, and they can apply for summer internships in Argentina, India, Brazil, China, Korea, Japan, and Thailand through the school’s Center on the Global Legal Profession. An unusual 1L course in the legal profession helps students discover their strengths while they explore career options. Several interesting dual-degree programs, including a three-year JD/MBA and a bevy of specialization programs in taxation, international and comparative law, and intellectual property round out IU’s “excellent” academic options.
The “extremely knowledgeable and accessible” faculty at IU “is really impressive.” “When you go to class, you get the sense that your professors want to be in the classroom, and that makes engaging yourself in the material much easier,” says a 2L. “There’s a nice balance between professors who try to scare the pants off of you and the ones who really encourage you to take risks and push yourself, even if you turn out to be wrong.” Even “boring” professors “really have a lot of important things to say.” Outside the classroom, professors “participate in the law school social events” and “will go to great lengths to help students publish, research, and get placed” in jobs.
IU’s administration “is genuinely concerned about students as individuals,” and its “helpful and nice” Financial Aid Office “is the best in the country.” Though in the past students have noted that “Career Services, while improving, has a long way to go,” the Office of Career and Professional Development has since created an alternative career series, alumni mentoring programs, and two alumni career service committees as well as expanded off campus interviews, hired new staff and hosted alumni-sponsored welcome-to-the-city events in key cities around the country. Many students tell us that the Career Services Office “does all it can to assist students in obtaining jobs.” “I think they’re great,” declares a 1L. “They’re not going to get a job for you, but they’ll do pretty much everything else.” “If you are near the top of the class,” “you’ll have the Indy firms drooling all over you,” and you won’t have a problem working at “any of the best firms in Chicago” “or even Washington, D.C.”
Everyone here agrees that the campus surrounding the law school is “beautiful.” Classrooms once described as “uncomfortable,” have been renovated. “The entire building has wireless Internet,” and “there are electrical outlets at each seat.” The gem of IU is the law library, which students claim is “without equal in the world, in part because of its staff.” “With large windows that look out on the forest in the middle of campus, it’s easy to forget that you’re in the middle of a Big Ten school.”

Career overview

Pass Rate for First-Time Bar Exam
86%
Median Starting Salary
$60,000
% of graduates who are employed within ten months of graduation
86%
% of job accepting graduates providing useable salary information
54%

Career Services

On campus summer employment recruitment for first year JD students
Yes

On campus summer employment recruitment for second year JD students
Yes

# of Employers that Recruit on Campus Each Year
73

Employers who most frequently hire graduates
Faegre Baker & Daniels; Chapman & Cutler Quarles & Brady Ice Miller Jones Day US Federal Circuit & District Courts Indiana Attorney General's Office Marion County (Indiana) Prosecutor's Office

Graduates Employed by Area

42%
Private Practice
15%
Business/Industry
13%
Government
9%
Judicial Clerkships
4%
Public Interes
4%
Academic

Graduates Employed by Region

63%
MidWest
15%
South
8%
Mid-Atlantic
7%
Pacific
4%
Mountain
2%
International
1%
New England

Prominent Alumni

Loretta Rush
Chief Justice, Indiana Supreme Court

Catherine A. Conway
Partner, Gibson Dunn

Alecia A. DeCoudreaux
President, Mills College

Michael S. Maurer
Chairman, IBJ Media Corporation; Chairman, The National Bank of Indianapolis

John Tinder
Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit

Dates

Financial Aid Rating
Mar 10
Application Deadlines
Dec 15

Financial Aid Statistics

Average Annual Total Aid Package Awarded
$46,578

% Students Receiving Some Aid
99%

Expenses per Academic Year

In-State Tuition
$30,500
Out-Of-State Tuition
$50,500
Estimated On-Campus Room and Board
$12,150
Estimated Off-Campus Room and Board
$12,150
Estimated Cost for Books / Academic Expense
$1,800
Fees
$1,300

Student Body Profile

Total Enrollment
539
Parent Institution Enrollement
114,912

Number of Foreign Countries Represented
15
Average Age at Entry
24

% Out-of-State
59%
% International
5%

Demographics

20.00%
% Under-represented Minorities

100% are full time
0% are part time
43% female
57% male

Campus Life

Students Say

IU’s Midwestern location helps encourage a collegial attitude that frowns on aggressive competition.” Students “simply do not let the abstract, competitive nature of the grading system affect their outward nature or the way they see their classmates.” “If there is a more laid-back group of students at any law school in the country, I’d like to see it,” challenges a 2L. “Students find their groups and comfort zones relatively quickly.” Smaller class sizes “contribute to some minor drama at times,” but students “get to know each other better and have a closer relationship with the faculty.” “You can learn as much law as well here as at Harvard or Yale,” promises a 3L. “But you will pay less, will see people being nicer to each other, and don’t have to live in a grungy New England city.”
The law school is “settled into a big university” “far away from the real-world” in “one of the greatest college towns in America.” “The school is great for young undergraduates who appreciate a small-town environment.” “Moving from a city to the boonies is still taking some getting used to,” says one urbanite, “but the school offers some phenomenal cultural opportunities.” There are “at least thirty ethnically diverse restaurants within a three-minute walk from the law school.” Students here “work hard,” but “there is great balance between the social life and the academic life.” “The fitness and recreation facilities are superb,” and “There are law school teams for intramurals.” The Law and Drama Society “puts on a play in the school’s moot court room.” “The annual Women’s Law Caucus Auction” is a big hit, as is an annual basketball game in IU’s beloved Assembly Hall, which pits students against professors. Mostly, though, “the social environment is aimed at those who like to go out and party.” “We’re very social, very involved, and very fun,” boasts a 2L. “The school is the focal point around which life spins, but there’s always something to do, somewhere to go, someone to talk to.” “There are after-hours activities sponsored by the school or a student group almost each week, and if there’s nothing going on students will always congregate somewhere to have fun.”

More Information

% of Classrooms with Internet Access
100%

Admissions Office Contact

Contact
Greg Canada
Assistant Dean of Admissions

Address
Baier Hall
211 South Indiana Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405-1001

Phone
812-855-4765

Email
lawadmis@indiana.edu