Click here for JD-only information
General
- Founded in 1915
- 32 full-time faculty
- 55 part-time professors of practice
- 504 students from 32 states and 37 countries
- 7,200+ alumni living in 40+ countries
- 46,000 hours of student clinical and externship experience in 2017-18
- 15 in-house clinics
- 12 dual-degree programs
- 15 concentrations and certificate programs
- 6 legal skills competition teams
- 4 student-edited journals
- 17 dual-degree partnerships around the world
- 4 academic and research centers
Rankings
- #55 Best Law School – U.S. News and World Report
- #8 Legal Writing - U.S. News and World Report
- #30 Environmental Law - U.S. News and World Report
- #48 among U.S. institutions; #26 among public colleges and universities
- #34 Health Care Law - U.S. News and World Report
- #52 Constitutional Law - U.S. News and World Report
- #19 Practical Training – PreLaw magazine
#27 Scholarly Impact – Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties
Careers
- Arizona is a Uniform Bar Exam state, meaning when you take the bar here, you earn a portable score that can be transferred to seek admission in more than 40 other UBE jurisdictions, including New York, Washington, D.C., New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Washington.
- 2 opportunities to take the bar exam as a 3L: February and July
- 98% percent summer placement rate for 1Ls in 2022
- 92.98 percent overall employment rate for JD Class of 2023 (those who were employed 10 months after graduation)
- See more University of Arizona Law employment outcomes
University of Arizona
- 42,236 students
- 44 colleges and schools
- #30 in research and development expenditures – National Science Foundation
- #93 Center for World University Rankings 2024 out of 20,966 ranked institutions
- #48 among U.S. institutions; #26 among public colleges and universities
- Arizona’s only member of the prestigious Association of American Universities
- 3 Nobel Prize Winners
- 22 members of the National Academy of Sciences
- Only MD-granting medical school in Arizona
Tucson
- #4 Best Cities for Millennials – Money magazine, 2015
- #1 City for Everyday Biking – People for Bikes, 2015
- Nearly one million residents
- 350 days of sunshine annually
- 5 mountain ranges
- 800 miles of bike paths
- More than 215 arts organizations and more than 35 art galleries in downtown alone
- The first U.S. city to be recognized as a World City of Gastronomy by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- More than 40 golf courses
- Oldest continuously inhabited settlement in North America
- 72 miles to Mexico
Updated July 17, 2024