College of Law Fact Sheet

The Students

The students of the College of Law are very talented and represent tremendous diversity culturally, educationally, and geographically.  Each year, about 150 full-time JD candidates enroll in the entering class, and 30 attorneys enroll in our two LLM programs: International Trade Law, and Indigenous People's Rights.

Admission is very competitive. The 155 members of the 2009 entering class are from 24 states, and attended 69 different undergraduate schools. 12% have graduate degrees, 41% are women and 21% are minorities. The median LSAT is 161, and the median undergraduate/ graduate GPA is 3.51.   These scores are very competitive nationwide, and our law school is consistently included in the lists of top 20% law schools.

Career & Professional Development

The professionally staffed Career & Professional Development Office provides employers, students, and alumni with a variety of support and information services: 

• Summer associate
• Permanent attorney
• Short-term research project positions
• Interviews on-campus
• Teleconferencing
• Videoconferencing
• Off-campus interviews in your city

• Resumes can be collected and sent to employers.
• Notices can be posted for employers who wish to   be contacted by students directly.
• College of Law alumni and other subscribers can be reached by employers through our on-line job publication, The Career AdvoCAT

The Faculty

An extraordinary number of major and classic texts are authored and edited by our faculty (e.g.,  Mauet on Trial Techniques ; Prosser, Keeton, Owens & Dobbs on Torts and Dobbs on Law of Remedies ; Massaro & Babock on Civil Procedure ; and McCormick's Evidence by Strong, Brown & Mosteller).  More than 12 nationally used casebooks and another half-dozen hornbooks are written by our 30 full-time faculty members.

The law school regularly has U.S. Supreme Court Justices and U.S. Court of Appeals Judges participate in special lecture offerings.

The University

The University of Arizona was founded in 1885 and is one of the nation's leading research universities, ranking 13th among public universities (14th among all universities) by the National Science Foundation.  The College of Law, founded in 1915, is the oldest law school in Arizona and has a rich and distinguished history. We are a full-time only JD and LLM program.

The University of Arizona
James E. Rogers College of Law
Career & Professional Development
1201 E. Speedway, Room 152
Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone: (520) 621-7668
Fax: (520) 621-9140