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Salmon P. Chase Law School
Also known as
- Salmon P. Chase Law School
- Northern Kentucky University
- NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
Salmon P. Chase Law School is a law school located in Highland Heights, Kentucky. The school was ranked 134 in 2025 by USNWR. Annual enrollment for Salmon P. Chase Law School is approximately 126.
Admissions website: https://chaselaw.nku.edu/
Admissions email: chaseadmissions@nku.edu
Admissions phone: 859.572.5490
Salmon P. Chase Law School Key Statistics
| Previous year ABA 509 data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Percentiles | 25 | 50 | 75 |
| LSAT | 149 | 152 | 156 |
| GPA | 3.07 | 3.38 | 3.66 |
| Miscellaneous | Count | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| # Applications | 502 | 8 |
| # Admissions offers | 361 | - |
| Class size | 126 | 25 |
| % Accepted | 71.9% | 4 |
| % Yield | 34.6% | 73 |
During the 2025 application cycle, 502 people applied and 361 were offered admission.
Northern Kentucky University has a 1L class size of 126, and yield of 34.63%. 125 out of 361 applicants who were offered admission accepted, meaning that 34.63% of the people who were offered admission ended up attending the school.
The 1L class at Northern Kentucky University has a median LSAT of 152. The 25th percentile LSAT is 150 and the 75th percentile LSAT is 156.
The median GPA is 3.5. The 25th percentile GPA is 3.14 and the 75th percentile GPA is 3.77.
Salmon P. Chase Law School LSAT & GPA graph for 2023-2024
LSD has stats for 37 applicants for the 2023-2024 application cycle.
The graphs show applicant results plotted against GPA and LSAT. The dotted lines on the graphs represent the 25/50/75th percentiles reported by the school in their ABA 509 report from the previous year.
Each data point represents an LSD user that shared their application results for the benefit of future applicants.
Click on a data point to see that user's profile.
How much does Salmon P. Chase Law School cost per year?
*The following data belongs to previous years.
Cost of attending Salmon P. Chase Law School
In 2025, tuition was $39,333 and the annual cost of attending was $58,801 (tuition plus living expenses).
Cost of Attendance (CoA) is the estimated total amount you will have to spend every year to go to school. Unlike tuition, CoA includes expenses like rent, food, and insurance.
Salmon P. Chase Law School employment outcomes
JD graduates from Northern Kentucky University make $70,000 (median) upon graduation if they work in the private sector. If they go into the public sector, a grad can expect to make $69,000.
46.1% of law graduates from Northern Kentucky University go directly to work for law firms, while 1.0% clerk for a judge. 12.7% of graduates go into public interest.
81.6% of Northern Kentucky University graduates pass the bar on their first try.
Some interesting facts about Salmon P. Chase Law School
Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law offers an outstanding opportunity for internationally trained lawyers or individuals with law degrees from outside the United States to add a global dimension to their careers with the LLM in US Law. Classroom instruction and other activities enable students to choose either to have a broad exposure to US legal concepts and applications or to concentrate their studies on particular aspects of US law.
Chase College of Law is located in Highland Heights, Kentucky—ranked as the seventh-safest college town in the United States—and is within the 2.1-million-population metropolitan area of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is on the edge of the rolling hills of Kentucky horse country, and it is within easy driving distance of such destinations as Washington, DC; the mega-metropolis of Chicago, Illinois; and the country music center of Nashville, Tennessee.
This school has a summer start term.