• Admissions application deadline:  Feb. 15
• Costs & financial aid: Tuition, $44,000; About 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 $2.4 million in loan payments.
• J.D. acceptance rate: 6.9 percent; enrollment rate: 79 percent

Faculty

• More than 70 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: More than 180 courses offered each year, with many opportunities for independent research and writing.
• Programs: J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., and M.S.L.; many joint degrees, including J.D.-M.B.A., J.D.-Ph.D., and J.D.-M.A.
• 25 clinics available, starting spring term first year; 80 percent of students take clinics
• 60 percent of students participate in public interest activities.

Students

• 659 students come from 47 states and 30 countries
• 49 percent are female and 27 percent are from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups. 
• Student/faculty ratio: 6.8 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 law firms, corporations, public interest, business, government, the judiciary, and academics in the United States and around the world.

Lillian Goldman Law Library

• The Lillian Goldman Library has approximately 900,000 volumes of print materials and 10,000 active print serial titles, as well as unparalleled access to online legal databases.
• Special strengths of the collection include materials emphasizing law and the social sciences, and a 200,000 volume foreign and 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.