Yale Law School has over 70 full-time faculty members. It also has 678 students from 48 states and 31 different countries. The average class size here is 20 students. Over 3,300 people apply yearly and 6.7 percent of those are accepted. Between 40 and 50 percent of students undergo judicial clerkships every year. This law school, in New Haven, Connecticut, costs $48,500 annually in tuition fees, as of 2011.
Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts and consists of 19 buildings. The law school has educated 149 of the current federal judges, six of the current Supreme Court justices and 12 former U.S. governors. About 1,900 students each year learn from 105 full-time professors. Harvard accepts 9 percent of applicants and tuition fees are $44,880 yearly, as of 2011.
Stanford Law School was established in 1908. Around 4,000 applications are received each year from 65 countries around world. There are 52 full-time faculty members and the student to faculty ratio is 8-to-1. A total of 69 percent of students are involved in journals and law reviews. Around 97 percent of students are employed within nine months of graduating and for the last 37 years graduates have clerked for justices on the Supreme Court. It costs $44,880 per year to study at Stanford Law School, as of 2011.
Columbia Law School enrolls around 210 students from over 50 countries every year. Approximately 95 percent of Columbia's law students pass the bar in one attempt. The law school was established in 1858 and currently offers courses leading to Master of Laws and the Doctor of the Science of Law degrees. The tuition fee is $48,648 per year, as of 2011.