About BYU Law

Admissions Data*

Tuition, Fees, Cost of Living, Financial Aid*

All other 509(b) required disclosures Standard 509(b)(1), (2), (3),(4), (5), (6)

Refund Policies

Curricular Offerings

Definition of a Credit Hour

Academic Calendar

Academic Requirements

Transfer of Credit Policy

Conditional Scholarships* (see page 2)

Enrollment Data and Attrition/Graduation Rates* (see pages 1 and 3)

Number of Full-time, Part-time Faculty and Administrators* (see page 2)

Class Sizes for First-year and Upper-class Courses; Number of Seminar, Clinical and Co-curricular Offerings

Complaints Concerning the Program of Legal Education

Employment Data Standard 509(b)(7)

Bar Passage Data Standard 509(b)(8)

Learning Outcomes

Library Resources

Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression at BYU Law School

*American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar

ABA Required Disclosures, 2021

Priority Enrollment Policy Standard 313(c)
BYU Law JD students have priority registration in all LAW courses over LLM students, visiting students from other ABA approved law schools, and other non-law students.

Definition of a Credit Hour

A “credit hour” awarded toward graduation represents an amount of work that reasonably approximates:

(a) Courses.

(i) 55 minutes of direct faculty instruction per week for 14 weeks or the equivalent amount of work over a different period. Time devoted to taking a required examination counts toward fulfillment of this requirement.
(ii) At least two hours and 10 minutes of out-of-class student work per week for 14 weeks or the equivalent amount of work over a different period. Time devoted to studying for a required examination counts toward fulfillment of this requirement.

(b) Clinics, Clinical Alliances, and Externships. Clinics require at least 42.5 hours of student work per credit and clinical alliances and externships require at least 45 hours of student work per credit, including time spent working on cases, projects, simulations, and preparing for a weekly seminar.

(d) Other Academic Work. Other academic activities such as journal and other academic work leading to the award of credit require at least 42.5 hours of student work per credit. Directed research requires at least 50 hours of student work per credit.