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	text:  larger  smaller		All figures approximate and based on 2003-4 academic year or average of 3 years to 2004 Law undergraduates | 839 in residence, up from 600 fifty years ago | average 1340 applicants for places of whom average 20% are successful | success rate from applicants from state-maintained schools: 22% | average 16% obtain first class degrees | average 75% proceed to training for legal practice as a first destination | more on undergraduate study... Law postgraduates | 316 in residence, half on taught courses | average 65 new research students admitted per year | more on postgraduate study... Law student body as a whole | male:female ratio 47:55 | mature students 10% | students from ethnic minorities (self-classified as non-white) 22% | part time students 0 (but see University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education) Academic staff in law | 80 members of the Faculty on the permanent University staff, including 20 with the rank of Professor | a further 30 adjunct academic staff working in colleges or research centres | More on faculty members... Library facilities | nearly 400,000 items in the Bodleian Law Library | 30 college law libraries | More on libraries...