UIC - Department of Economics - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Average LSAT Scores for 29 Majors with over 400 Students Taking the Exam

1994-95 rank	Major	Average score	Number of students	1991-92 rank	Average score	Number of students

1	Physics/ Math	157.6	689	1	157.2	634
2	Philosophy/ Religion	156.0	1,884	2	155.9	1,547
3	Economics	155.3	2,916	3	155.7	4,157
4	International Relations	155.1	1,546	4	154.9	1,213
5	Chemistry	154.5	893	7	154.7	601
6	Government/ Service	154.4	812	8	154.4	702
7	Anthropology/ Geography	154.1	898	4	155.1	708

8	History	154.0	5,819	9	154.4	5,080
9	English	153.7	6,324	10	153.9	5,698
10	Biology	153.6	1,858	12	153.5	1,519
11	Other Social Science	153.2	2,609	11	153.9	742
12	Engineering	152.7	2,656	6	154.7	2,536
13	Foreign Languages	152.5	2,002	16	152.3	2,042
14	Finance	152.2	2,009	13	153.1	2,756

15	Computer Science	152.2	468	17	152.2	500
16	Psychology	151.9	3,977	18	152.0	3,522
17	Accounting	151.8	2,340	14	152.6	2,855
18	Political Science	151.6	15,388	19	151.8	13,628
19	Communication/ Arts	150.7	3,898	20	150.8	3,909
20	Marketing/ Real Estate	150.0	1,826	21	150.4	2,245
21	Liberal Arts	149.8	1,148	24	149.5	1,032

22	Management	149.4	2,735	22	149.9	3,294
23	Sociology/Social work	149.3	3,129	25	149.2	2,550
24	Bus. Administration	148.6	2,111	23	149.6	2,454
25	Health Profession	148.6	984	27	148.5	1,105
26	Education	148.2	823	26	148.7	815
27	No major given	147.6	5,289	30	145.5	3,225
28	Prelaw	147.3	1,076	28	147.9	712
29	Criminology	145.8	3,960	29	145.9	2,928

	Weighted mean	151.6	82,067		151.9	75,620

Source: Nieswiadomy, Michael, "LSAT Scores of Economics Majors," Journal of Economic Education (Fall 1998): 377-379.