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Contact Information:

School of Law
414 E. Clark St.
Vermillion, SD 57069
phone: 605.677.5443
fax: 605.677.5417
Law.School@usd.edu

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Last Modified: 05/16/08

admission

The University of South Dakota School of Law seeks to attract graduates of approved colleges and universities who have made a commitment to study law and who possess superior intelligence, sound judgment, good moral character, and a willingness to devote themselves to the service of others and the improvement of the legal profession.

The Law School recommends that students contemplating a career in law take courses which require them to develop conscientious study habits, analytical skills, and critical thinking. The law school applicant should be highly literate and should have developed a discriminating regard for facts, a capacity to make critical judgments, and the ability to engage in inductive and deductive reasoning.

Evidence of an applicant's intellectual maturity is more important in making admission decisions than his or her major in undergraduate or graduate school. There is no prescribed or recommended pre-law curriculum. Undergraduate majors in entering classes range from political science, history, economics, business, and English, to foreign languages, sciences, engineering, mathematics, and the arts.

Click on the links to the left to learn about avenues for admission and procedures.