An Outstanding Legal Education

University of St. Thomas School of Law Points of Pride

• Ten different faculty (more than one third of full-time faculty) have published in a Top 25 law review (22 articles) since 2004. 
• The University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) is featured as one of the nation’s top law schools for externships in National Jurist’s October 2010 issue. Ranked #1 in the country for having the most externship placements per full-time student (2011 ABA data), the School of Law’s Mentor Externship program matches every current law student with a mentor during all three years of law school.
• St. Thomas ranked #38 in law review citations to tenured faculty, per-capita,2005-2009 (in study extending Prof. Brian Leiter's "Scholarly Impact Score" methodology to all ABA-accredited American law schools).
• UST Law was ranked in the top 50 U.S. law schools on Professor Paul Caron's list based on the Princeton Review's 2011 edition of the Best 172 Law Schools.
• Faculty members consistently win writing awards, including the Warren E. Burger Award, the Law and Society Article Prize, and the John Courtney Murray Award.
• The school was ranked from #1 to #4 for the “Best Quality of Life for Students” by the Princeton Review for five straight years from 2004 to 2009.
• The school ranked seventh nationally for the percent of students going into public interest law by National Jurist Magazine in March 2008.
• Attorney mentors provided 3,170 mentor experiences to UST Law students in the 2009-2010 school year, engaging every student and over 450 mentors in one to one mentoring relationships.
• In 2009-2010, students dedicated 15,075 hours to public service as part of the Public Service Requirement
• UST Law achieved the #1 spot for the percentage of living alumni contributing to annual giving campaigns in the nation for five straight years.
• UST Law has reached the $90 million mark for a fundraising total, allowing us to establish professorships and chairs and provide financial aid for our students