Survey of American College Students 2022: Interest in Going to Law School

Survey of American College Students 2022: Interest in Going to Law School

Students studying the social sciences were far likelier than others to say that it was likely or highly likely that they would apply to law school and more than 26% of them felt that it was likely or highly likely. Student studying criminology and law enforcement with the second most likely to say that they are likely or highly likely to apply to law school and more than 22.5% of them felt this way. Students in history and classics were another area with a high percentage of students interested in law school.The study presents detailed data on the level of interest of college undergraduates in the USA in going to law school with data broken out by many personal variables including academic major, gender, age, income level of family of origin, SAT/ACT scores, political convictions, race/ethnicity, religion and many others. It also breaks out interest in law school by the institutional variables of type or Carnegie class, public/private status, tuition level and total enrollment. Data in the report is based on a survey of 1,289 full time college students at 4-year colleges in the United States.

In open ended questions, survey respondents name the academic major that they feel would best prepare them for law school and the law schools to which they are most likely to apply. Law schools mentioned are tabulated by the ACT/SAT scores of the survey respondents so that end users of the report can find out how many times particular law schools were mentioned as likely application targets by students at different levels of standardized test results.