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UC Irvine Law
Also known as
- UC Irvine Law
- University of California—Irvine
- CALIFORNIA-IRVINE, UNIVERSITY OF
- UCI
UC Irvine Law is a law school located in Irvine, California. The school was ranked 38 in 2025 by USNWR. Annual enrollment for UC Irvine Law is approximately 151.
Admissions website: https://www.law.uci.edu/admission/
Admissions email: admissions@law.uci.edu
Admissions phone: 949.824.5335
UC Irvine Law Key Statistics
| Previous year ABA 509 data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Percentiles | 25 | 50 | 75 |
| LSAT | 164 | 167 | 169 |
| GPA | 3.49 | 3.72 | 3.84 |
| Miscellaneous | Count | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| # Applications | 2629 | 76 |
| # Admissions offers | 478 | - |
| Class size | 151 | 39 |
| % Accepted | 18.2% | 88 |
| % Yield | 30.5% | 55 |
During the 2025 application cycle, 2,629 people applied and 478 were offered admission.
University of California—Irvine has a 1L class size of 151, and yield of 30.54%. 146 out of 478 applicants who were offered admission accepted, meaning that 30.54% of the people who were offered admission ended up attending the school.
The 1L class at University of California—Irvine has a median LSAT of 167. The 25th percentile LSAT is 163 and the 75th percentile LSAT is 168.
The median GPA is 3.81. The 25th percentile GPA is 3.65 and the 75th percentile GPA is 3.89.
UC Irvine Law LSAT & GPA graph for 2023-2024
LSD has stats for 563 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 UC Irvine Law cost per year?
*The following data belongs to previous years.
Cost of attending UC Irvine Law
In 2025, tuition was $68,270 and the annual cost of attending was $105,403 (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.
UC Irvine Law employment outcomes
86.9% of University of California—Irvine graduates pass the bar on their first try.
Some interesting facts about UC Irvine Law
Located in sunny Orange County, California, UC Irvine School of Law (PDF) opened its doors to students in August 2009, the first new public law school in California in more than 40 years. UCI Law seeks to create the ideal law school for the twenty-first century by doing the best job of training lawyers for the practice of law at the highest levels of the profession. Recruited from prestigious schools, the faculty has been nationally recognized for its scholarly impact. The school’s innovative curriculum stresses hands-on learning, interdisciplinary study, and public service.
The law school has received tremendous recognition for its clinical training and intellectual property law programs, as well as for student diversity and its student-to-faculty ratio.
Other accolades include
national recognition for placement of our students in government and public interest jobs,
recognition as one of the country’s best schools for practical training,
the vast majority of our students rating their entire law school educational experience as “excellent” in a recent survey, and
recognition for student placement in prestigious federal judicial clerkships.
UCI Law prides itself on a commitment to public service, an innovative curriculum that features experiential learning, and its culture of civility. Take a look at how UCI Law’s inaugural class helped establish these foundations.