On September 11, 2011, The News-Gazette reported that the University of Illinois College of Law posted inaccurate information on its website about the LSAT scores and GPAs of its incoming first-year law students.[6] Two months later, the law school announced that a report commissioned from Jones Day and Duff & Phelps had found admission data for six of the seven previous years to have been manipulated by the Assistant Dean of Admissions Paul Pless, that Pless had acted alone and would no longer work for the College.[7][8]
Admissions
For the class entering in 2023, the University of Illinois College of Law accepted 43.69% of applicants, with 21.57% of those accepted enrolling. The average enrollee had a 165 LSAT score and 3.75 undergraduate GPA.[2]
The flagship law review is the University of Illinois Law Review; the law school also publishes two specialized law journals, the Elder Law Journal and the Journal of Law, Technology & Policy,[9] which in 2007, ExpressO then ranked as the #4 Science & Technology law journal.[10] The College is also the home institution for the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, and for Law and Philosophy.
According to the College of Law's official 2016 ABA-required disclosures, 78.92% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment 10 months after graduation.[12] This was then the 19th highest out of all law schools in the United States.[13][failed verification]Law School Transparency under-employment score is 10.8%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2016 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job 10 months after graduation.[14]
In 1957, the Chicago Sunday Tribune released the first modern rankings of law schools, and included Illinois among the top 10 law schools in America.[15]
In the 2024 U.S. News & World Report ranking, the college was ranked 36th in the country, tied with four others.[3] In 2023, Above the Law ranked the college 19th in the nation.[16]
In its annual 2011 ranking of "Go-To Law Schools," The National Law Journal then ranked the University of Illinois College of Law 16th in the number of alumni associates promoted to partner.[17] In 2012, the National Jurist named the University of Illinois College of Law in its list of the 20 most innovative law schools, based on more than 40 submissions.[18]