Richmond Law at a Glance
- Student to faculty ratio: 11.38 to 1
- 92.77% of the Class of 2011 employed or seeking advanced degrees within 9 months of graduation
- Extensive clinical programs and pro bono opportunities
- One of few law schools to require a second-year of law skills training as part of curriculum
- Offers four student-published journals: University of Richmond Law Review, Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest, and Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business
- Located on the UR’s 350-acre main campus, consistently cited among the most beautiful campuses in the nation
- Extended facilities at UR Downtown, an environmentally sustainable facility in the heart of downtown Richmond
- The Law Library houses private study carrels for each student, and for the past 10 years has ranked among the top 20 U.S. law school libraries in terms of dollars spent for information per student
- Combined Degrees in Law/Business Adminstration, Law/Public Adminstration, Law/Social Work, Law/Health Administration, and Law/Urban Studies and Planning
- Certificates of Concentration in Family Law and Intellectual Property
- Centers and Institutes: Intellectual Property Institute, National Center for Family Law, Environmental Law Center, and Institute for Actual Innocence
- Study-abroad programs in more than 20 countries
- Over 35 student organizations
- Richmond has more courts than any city outside of Washington, D.C. and Boston
- Richmond is home to the Virginia General Assembly, a Federal Reserve Bank, numerous international law firms, several Fortune 500 companies, and a dynamic biotech research center
- Forbes ranked Virginia number two as Best State for Business