Fast Facts

  • Type of School: Premier, Small, Urban, Public
  • Location: Clifton area of Cincinnati, Ohio (population 2 million)
  • Founded: 1833 - 4th oldest in country
  • Accredited by the American Bar Association
    Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association
    321 N. Clark Street
    Chicago, IL 60654
    (312) 988-6738
  • One of the 32 charter members of the Association of American Law Schools, founded in 1900
  • Term: Semester
  • UC Enrollment: 42,000
  • Student/Faculty Ratio: 11.1
  • Median LSAT/UGPA: 160/3.57
  • 75% LSAT/UGPA: 162/3.80
  • 25% LSAT/UGPA: 155/3.36

Sample College of Law Enrollment Profile (Fall 2011)

  • 409 students
  • 41% women
  • 59% men
  • 16% minority

Post-Graduation

  • Bar passage: first-time takers passed July 2011 Ohio Bar at 94% rate (first among Ohio's nine law schools)
  • Class of 2010 took positions in 15 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and one foreign country

Centers/Institutes/Clinics

Student Journals and Publications

Joint Degrees

Most Famous Alumnus is William Howard Taft (only person in history to be President and Chief Justice of the United States)