Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

This article is about the school in Indianapolis. For the school in Bloomington, see Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
Indiana University
Robert H. McKinney
School of Law
Lawrence W. Inlow Hall in 2011
Established1894 (1894)
School typePublic law school
DeanKaren Bravo
LocationIndianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Enrollment773 (2024)[1]
Faculty44 (2024, full time)[1]
USNWR ranking107th (tie) (2025)[2]
Websitemckinneylaw.iu.edu

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (IU McKinney) is the law school of Indiana University Indianapolis, a public research university in Indianapolis, Indiana. The school has been based in Lawrence W. Inlow Hall in Indianapolis since 2001.[3] IU McKinney is one of two law schools operated by Indiana University, the other being the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington. Although both law schools are part of Indiana University, each law school is wholly independent of the other.

According to IU McKinney's 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 59% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, J.D.-required employment within ten months after graduation.[4]

History

The school's name was changed in December 2011 in recognition of a $24 million gift from Robert H. McKinney, who previously served as chairman and CEO of First Indiana Corporation and is among the founders of the Bose McKinney & Evans LLP Indianapolis law firm.[5] The gift was the largest in school history and was part of an arrangement to match funds with an IUPUI fundraising campaign, for a total value of $31.5 million.[6] The school was renamed after McKinney.[7]

Admissions

For the class entering in 2024, the law school accepted 492 out of 782 applicants (a 62.92% acceptance rate), with 263 of those accepted enrolling, a 53.46% yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who enrolled). Six students were not included in the acceptance statistics. The class consisted of 269 students. The median LSAT score was 155 and the median undergraduate GPA was 3.59. Five students were not included in the GPA calculation and seven not included in the LSAT calculation. The reported 25th/75th percentile LSAT scores and GPAs were 152/159 and 3.31/3.83.[1]

Online programs

IU McKinney has been an early mover in online course development, with a regular offering of up to ten courses per semester, including the Summer term, offered online. Most of these classes are asynchronous online courses taught by full time tenured members of the law school faculty. IU McKinney Online courses are available to students in the JD, LLM, and Masters of Jurisprudence programs; and to visiting students earning credits to transfer back to their home institutions. These online offerings include core, required, and highly recommended courses, as well as upper level specialty courses. Most IU McKinney Online courses have been produced in a 1-1 partnership with Ph.D. course designers working with Indiana University e-Learning Design and Services or the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning. The director of online programs is a senior member of the tenured law faculty, Max Huffman.[8]

Employment

According to IU McKinney's 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 61% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, J.D.-required employment within ten months after graduation. Across the three categories of employment ordinarily considered to be appropriate for comparison, the ABA 2019 summary reports that IU McKinney graduates were employed at an 88% rate, compared to a national average of 86% and an Indiana average of 88%.[9][4]

Costs

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at IU McKinney for the 2019–2020 academic year for an Indiana resident was $49,710, and $69,770 for a non-resident.[10] The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $185,611 for an Indiana resident and $258,039 for a non-Indiana resident.[11]

Rankings

In 2025, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school tied for 107th out of 197 schools.[2] In its 2019 edition, U.S. News ranked the school 98th, 8th in legal writing, 10th in healthcare law (tied with Harvard) and 18th in part-time legal programs.[12][13]

Law reviews

The Indiana International & Comparative Law Review (II&CLR) has been published annually since 1991.[14] The Indiana Health Law Review addresses issues related to "bioethics, malpractice liability, managed care, anti-trust, health care organizations, medical-legal research, legal medicine, food and drug, and other current health-related topics".[15] It was first published in the 2004–2005 academic year. IU McKinney also publishes the Indiana Law Review[16] and European Journal of Law Reform and the Indiana Law Review.

Center

William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health

This section is an excerpt from Lawrence W. Inlow Hall § William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health.[edit]

The Center for Law and Health was established in 1987, with the mission of conducting research on health care law in Indiana. The Center was first announced by, then Vice President, Gerald Bepko is his State of the Campus speech on January 7, 1988.[17] The center was ranked among the top 10 by U.S. News in 2004.[18] It houses the Indiana Health Law Review.[19]

Notable faculty

Ruth Lilly Law library

The Ruth Lilly Law Library is the school's law library, holding approximately 603,000 volumes.[29]

Alumni

References

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