About Indiana Law
For more than 150 years, the Indiana University School of Law has provided top-flight, transformative legal education. With just over 750 JD and graduate-degree students, drawn from more than 100 undergraduate schools and from three continents, Indiana Law retains a distinctive sense of collegiality and community in the stimulating, cosmopolitan college town of Bloomington, Ind.
2007 Entering JD Class
- 2,517 applications received
- 214 total enrolled
- 164 median LSAT
- 3.4 median GPA
- 20 percent minority; 38 percent female
- 33 percent age 25 or older
- 10 percent postgraduate coursework; 48 percent postgraduate work experience
- 64 percent non-resident, representing 34 states and the District of Columbia
- 114 undergraduate institutions represented
Learn more about admissions.
International Graduate students
In 2007-08, students from Iraq, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia as well as Africa, Latin America, Saudi Arabia, Europe, and from our partner schools in China, Thailand, Korea, and Taiwan joined the Indiana Law community.
Learn more about our Graduate Legal Studies Program.
Degrees Offered
- JD
- JD/MBA (three- and four-year programs with the Kelley School of Business)
- JD/MBAA (with the Kelley School of Business)
- JD/MPA (Accountancy with the Kelley School of Business)
- JD/MSES (Environmental Science with SPEA)
- JD/MPA (Public Affairs with SPEA)
- JD/MA (Journalism); JD/MA or MS (Telecommunications)
- JD/MS (Library and Information Science)
- LLM (thesis or practicum), SJD, and MCL
- Any personalized concurrent degree
Read more about our joint-degree and graduate programs.
Clinical Opportunities
- Community Legal Clinic
- Conservation Law Clinic
- Criminal Law Externship (new)
- Disability Law Clinic
- Elder Law Clinic
- Elmore Entrepreneurship Law Clinic
- Family and Children Mediation Clinic
- Federal Courts Clinic
- Immigration Law Practicum
- Indiana Legal Services Externship
- Inmate Legal Assistance Project
- Intellectual Property Practicum
- Protective Order Project
- Public Interest Internship Program
- Tenant Assistance Project
- Washington Public Interest Program
Read more about Indiana Law's clinical program.
Faculty
The Law School's comprehensive curriculum is taught by internationally-recognized faculty, who make Indiana Law's programs in tax, intellectual property, environmental, information and communications, and international law equally as prestigious.
- 11:1 student to faculty ratio
- 54 full-time law faculty, 7 clinical law faculty, and 22 adjunct faculty
- 12% minority
- 38% female
Interdisciplinary Research Centers
- Center on American and Global Security
- Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research
- Center for Constitutional Democracy in Plural Societies
- Center on Law, Society and Culture (Law & Society Association)
Read more about our centers.
Career Placement
- 98.6 % placement Rate within 9 months of graduation
- 62.6 % employed outside of Indiana
- 8 % judicial clerkships
- Off-campus recruiting events in: Washington, D.C.; Chicago, Ill.; and Louisville, Ky.
The Law School Career Services Office works with 102 firms/agencies to conduct on-campus recruiting. Participating agencies include:
- Baker & Daniels
- Barnes & Thornburg
- Bose McKinney
- Jenner & Block
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Lord Bissell & Brook
- Sidley Austin
- Akin-Gump
- Arnold & Porter
- Baker & McKenzie
- Hogan & Hartson
- Brinks Hofer
- Finnegan Henderson
- Foley & Lardner
- Jones Day
- Latham & Watkins
- Porter Wright
- Shook Hardy & Bacon
Law Library
- 20th largest academic law library in United States
- Nearly 750,000 volumes
- 10 librarians, 10 library professional and support staff
- Federal Document Depository since 1978
- 290 study carrels, 681 total seats
- Open 115 hours per week
- Named "Best Law Library in the Country" by National Jurist (Fall 2004)
Study Abroad
Over the last five years, approximately 30 percent of each graduating class has studied abroad during their law school program. Indiana Law offers more than 15 options from Egypt and China to Germany, Korea, Poland, and New Zealand.
Read more about summer and semester-long study abroad programs.
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Accreditation
The Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington is accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA). Copies of the most recent accreditation report are on file and available for review, upon request, in the Office of the Dean of the Law School.