At Columbia Law School, classrooms are the most important rooms on campus. Our students are training to become leaders for the world and the intellectual resources that abound in our classrooms simply cannot be matched anywhere else. The breadth and depth of the curricular offerings at Columbia Law School are exceedingly vast and uniquely robust with respect to many of the most compelling areas of interest in legal scholarship. Like the practice of law at the highest level, our curriculum is global, interdisciplinary, and rigorously practical.
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- 435 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
- 435 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
SCHOOL DETAILS
Law + Legal Studies
Overview
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LSAT Scores
Undergraduate GPA Scores
Tuition & Payments
Out of state
FULL-TIME
$209,748
Unassisted tuition for three years (full program)
50% of students
-$132,000
Median grant assistance awarded
50% of students receive grants
$77,748
Median assisted tuition for
three years (full program)
Academic
Class Location
Class Location
On-Campus Classes Only (100%)
Online Classes Only (0%)
On-Campus and Online (0%)
Class Sizes
Co-Curricular Offerings
336Seats available in law clinics last year
292Field placement positions filled last year
1068Seats available in simulation courses
135Seminars
4Other co-curricular offerings
Bar Passage Rate
Post-Graduation Employment
Employment by Industry
449
Total Graduates
Industry
Business + Industry (2%)
Academia (0%)
Unknown (2%)
Clerkships (6%)
Public Sector (4%)
Nonprofit (6%)
Law Firms (80%)
Employment by State
New York - 73%
District of Columbia - 6%
California - 6%
Employment Requirements
Employment at Law Firms by Size
Race & Gender
Students
Race
Asian (14.60%)
American Indian or Alaska Native (0.19%)
Black or African American (11.26%)
Hispanic (11.16%)
Native Hawaiin or Other Pacific Islander (0.00%)
White (59.26%)
Race and Ethnicity Unknown (3.53%)
Professors
Race
Minority (12.2%)
White (87.8%)
Gender
Male (67%)
Female (33%)
Student Transfers
Transfers into this school
8%
of second year students transferred
into this school with a median GPA of 4.0
into this school with a median GPA of 4.0
Higher than average
Transfers out of this school
0.0%
of first year students transferred
out of this school
out of this school
Lower than average
Value & Affordability
$3,540,705Career value increase over 25 years with the primary degree from this school.
12%Of your projected salary will go toward student loan payments. (Below the recommended limit.)
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Value & Affordability
$3,540,705Career value increase over 25 years with the primary degree from this school.
12%Of your projected salary will go toward student loan payments. (Below the recommended limit.)
Customize
SALARYPROGRAMFINANCING
Current salary
$
Current salary potential
$
Post-grad salary
$
Post-grad salary potential
$