The below information and links are provided in accordance with the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Standards Review Committee.  While our website contains this and much more data, we wanted to present the information called for in the Standard 509. Consumer Information on one page for ease of use by future law students making comparisons. 

Standard 509. BASIC CONSUMER INFORMATION

Admissions data

• Tuition, fees, living costs, financial aid
• Conditional scholarships
• Refunds
• Enrollment data
• Attrition/graduation rates - (The University of St. Thomas School of Law lost 18 students to attrition during the 2010-2011 School year as reported to the ABA)
• Composition and number of full-time and part-time faculty and administrators
• Curricular offerings
• Academic calendar
• Academic requirements
• Library resources
• Physical facilities
• Employment outcomes placement rates and bar passage data
• Transfer credit policy
• Articulation Agreements (Currently the University of St. Thomas School of Law has no articulation agreements)

The employment data at the Career and Professional Service Office follows the guidelines established by the ABA:

• The employment outcomes shall be posted on the school’s website each year by March 31 or such other date as the Council may establish.
• The employment outcomes posted must be accurate as of February 15th for persons who graduated with a JD degree between September 1 two calendar
  years prior and August 31 one calendar year prior.
• The employment outcomes posted shall remain on the school’s website for at least three years, so that at any time at least three graduating classes’ data are
  posted.
• The employment outcomes shall be gathered and disclosed in accordance with the form, instructions and definitions approved by the Council.

Conditional Scholarship Data

The ABA policy states, "A law school shall publicly disclose on its website, in the form designated by the Council, its conditional scholarship retention data. A law school shall also distribute this data to all applicants being offered conditional scholarships at the time the scholarship offer is extended."  It is the practice of the School of Law to communicate this information in a letter to applicants at the time they apply for a scholarship.

Scholarship Retention

All UST Law merit scholarships are offered on a three-year basis, meaning that students retain the scholarship provided they remain in good academic standing (GPA of 2.0 or better.) For more information on the UST Law Scholarship policy, refer to Section II-6 of the policy manual.

In 2011, 99% of our students retained their scholarships. The following table illustrates our scholarship retention in recent years.