• Admissions application deadline:  Feb. 15
• Costs & financial aid: Tuition, $42,000; Eighty percent of students receive need-based financial aid. Yale Law School has one of the most generous post-graduate loan forgiveness programs in the country; last year YLS provided more than $2.2 million in loan payments.
• J.D. acceptance rate: 6.9 percent; enrollment rate: 79 percent

Faculty

• More than 60 full-time faculty
• More than 50 lecturers, fellows, and affiliated faculty
• Faculty active in international, constitutional, and corporate legal issues through their work in numerous Yale Law School centers and projects.

Academics

• Courses: Nearly 200 courses offered each year, with many opportunities for independent research and writing.
• Programs: J.D.; LL.M.; and J.S.D., M.S.L. ; many joint degrees, including J.D.-M.B.A., J.D.-Ph.D., and J.D.-M.A.
• 19 clinics available, starting spring term first year; 80 percent of students take clinics
• 60 percent of students participate in public interest activities.

Students

• 643 students come from 47 states and 31 countries
• 46 percent are female and 30 percent are from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups. 
• Student/faculty ratio: 7.4 to 1
• Average class size: under 20 students
• Yale Law School offers generous fellowships for summer public interest work.

Alumni

• Yale Law School has more than twelve thousand alumni who are leaders in business, government, the judiciary, and academics in the United States and around the world.

Lillian Goldman Library

• The Lillian Goldman Library has 800,000 volumes of print materials and approximately 10,000 active serial titles.
• Special strengths of the collection include materials emphasizing law and the social sciences, and a 200,000 volume international law collection.

Media information

• The Public Affairs Office provides a range of services to media  requesting information on the Law School, its faculty, students, and programs.
• YLS hosts hundreds of events each year on timely issues ranging from corporate ethics to food laws in China. The YLS Calendar  provides access to all upcoming events.