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General
- Founded in 1915
- 32 full-time faculty
- 55 part-time professors of practice
- 504 students from 32 states and 37 countries
- 9,000+ alumni living in 40+ countries
- 15 in-house clinics
- 12 dual-degree programs
- 15 concentrations and certificate programs
- 6 legal skills competition teams
- 3 student-edited journals
- 17 dual-degree partnerships around the world
- 4 academic and research centers
Rankings
- #70 best law school (U.S. News and World Report, April 2026)
- #5 Legal Writing program public law schools (U.S. News and World Report, April 2026)
- #8 Legal Writing program all law schools (U.S. News and World Report, April 2026
- #7 practical training (PreLaw magazine, April 2026)
- #32 Environmental Law program (U.S. News and World Report, April 2026)
- #35 Health Care Law program (U.S. News and World Report, April 2026)
- #35 Criminal Law program (U.S. News and World Report, April 2026)
- #39 International Law program (U.S. News and World Report, April 2026)
- #40 Constitutional Law program (U.S. News and World Report, April 2026)
- #21 in Law Schools with the Most Grads in Public Interest Law (U.S. News and World Report, April 2026)
- #23 in Law Schools with the Most Graduates in Federal Clerkships (U.S. News and World Report, April 2026)
- #17 scholarly impact among public law schools (University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minnesota)
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
- 92.31% employed in full-time, long-term bar-passage-required or JD-advantage positions
- 95.38% overall employment rate
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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
- See all U of A rankings
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 June 10, 2026