Quick Facts
DEGREES OFFERED
- Juris Doctor (J.D.)
- JD/MBA (Joint Program)
- JD/MA, PhD in Political Science (Dual Enrollment Program)
- JD/MPA (Dual Enrollment Program)
- JD/PhD in Economics (Dual Enrollment Program)
- JD/MS in Civil Engineering (Dual Enrollment Program)
- JD/MSW in Social Work (Dual Enrollment Program)
- JD/LLM in Taxation (Dual Enrollment Program)
- Master of Laws (LL.M.) – International Graduate Program
- Master of Laws (LL.M.) Concentrations in Taxation and Business Transactions
2012-2013 TUITION
- $19,660 Resident
- $32,920 Nonresident
Named as the #1 “2012 Best Value Law School” by National Jurist
SCHOLARSHIPS AND FINANCIAL AID
Law School applicants are considered automatically for first-year scholarships. Many students also receive loans through the University’s Student Financial Aid Office. Students interested in seeking financial aid must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as soon after January 1 as possible. The FAFSA may be completed online at fafsa.ed.gov.
STUDENT BODY AND FACULTY
- Approximately 500 J.D. students
- 50 full-time faculty/35-45 part-time faculty
- Student-to-faculty ratio is 10.1 to 1
- Over 150 Electives offered (See Curriculum Information)
CLASS OF 2015 PROFILE
- 1,679 applications received (368 resident/1311 nonresident)
- 423 candidates admitted
- 71 undergraduate institutions represented
- 25 states represented
- LSAT*: Median – 165; 75th percentile – 167; 25th percentile – 158
- UGPA: Median – 3.83; 75th percentile – 3.94; 25th percentile – 3.31
*Does not include 20 UA Law-Honors students, whose UGPA mean was 3.94, ACT mean was 29, and SAT mean was 1225
SPECIAL FEATURES AND ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
- Governmental Affairs Certificate
- Public Interest Law Certificate
- Public Interest Institute
- Externship Program
- Over 20 Trial Advocacy and Moot Court Teams
- Summer Professional Readiness Program
CLINICAL PROGRAMS
- Capital Defense Law Clinic
- Civil Law Clinic
- Community Development Law Clinic
- Criminal Law Clinic
- Domestic Violence Law Clinic
- Elder Law Clinic
- Mediation Clinic
Every Alabama Law student is guaranteed a clinical experience
JOURNALS
- Alabama Law Review
- The Journal of the Legal Profession
- Law & Psychology Review
- Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review
About 40% of our graduates have journal experience
STUDY ABROAD
University of Fribourg (Fribourg, Switzerland)
The Australian National University (Canberra, Australia)
Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel)
The University of Delhi (New Delhi, India)
AFTER GRADUATION
- For our Class of 2012, the Alabama State Bar passage rate was 96%.
- 96% of the Class of 2011 was employed or attending graduate school within nine months of graduation.
- 2012 marks the fourth consecutive year that Alabama has seen ten or more of our graduates hired to federal judicial clerkships.
- Alumni include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black; Morris Dees, Co-Founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center; former ABA President Tommy Wells; Judge Frank Johnson; Habitat for Humanity Founder Millard Fuller; and U.S. Senators Howell Heflin, Richard Shelby, and Jeff Sessions.
(February 2013)