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Law at Yale University

Law at Yale University

What traits are you looking for in a law school? To help you decide if Yale University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's law program.

Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut and approximately 12,060 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Law section at the bottom of this page.

Yale Law Degrees Available

Yale Law Rankings

Concentrations Within Law

The following law concentations are available at Yale University. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Yale University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Law 218

Careers That Law Grads May Go Into

A degree in law can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CT, the home state for Yale University.

Occupation Jobs in CT Average Salary in CT
Lawyers 7,270 $153,640
Judges, and Magistrates 230 $160,410
Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers 210 $100,590
Judicial Law Clerks 200 $77,550

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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