Class Profile & Facts


1L Class Facts

LSAT
Median: 157
75th percentile: 160
25th percentile: 153

GPA
Median: 3.5
75th percentile: 3.81
25th percentile: 3.27

Enrollment
Number of Total Students: 177
Residents: 47%
Nonresidents: 53%
Male: 54%
Female: 46%
Students of Color: 26%
States Represented: 26

Tuition

  • Resident Tuition: $17,630 per year
  • Nonresident Tuition: $36,935 per year

Concentration Programs

  • Air & Space Law
  • Business Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Sports and Entertainment Law

Journal Experience

  • For the past three academic years, 77 students published articles, with 25 placed all over the country and world:The Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & PolicyThe Brazilian Journal of International Law, the University of Denver Sports & Entertainment Law Journal, the University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy and the Virginia Journal of International Law 
  • 50 placed in journals at Ole Miss Law: Mississippi Law Journal, Mississippi Sports Law Review, Journal of Space Law
  • Three publications devoted to environmental, ocean and coastal law

Student Body & Faculty

  • Approximately 510 JD students
  • 38 full time faculty
  • Student to faculty ratio: 13:1
  • 185 electives offered
  • 8 former/current members of the military
  • 18% first-generation college students
  • Smaller entering class means more jobs available upon graduation

Post Graduation

  • Current ABA Bar passage rate is 92.55%
  • Alumni located in 48 states and Washington, D.C.
  • Alumni include John Grisham, writer; A.C. Wharton, mayor of Memphis; Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, U.S. senators; and Matthew Sharpe, workers’ compensation and compliance coordinator for the New Orleans Saints
  • Ole Miss Law has been ranked in the top 50 based on post-graduate success, student satisfaction, affordability and diversity by National Jurist

All applicants are given automatic consideration for first year scholarships.  Most of our scholarships are merit-based.  Also, students may receive loans through the University’s Financial Aid Office.