2025 Law School Average Acceptance Rate

A total of 517,139 applicants applied to ABA-accredited law schools for law school admission in 2024. The acceptance rate was 36.08%, with 137,399 students accepted. Among the successful applicants, 42,059 students enrolled in law school, with an enrollment rate of 33.35%.

The following table shows and compares 2025 admission statistics for all ABA-accredited law schools with tuition information.

2025 Acceptance rate and Admission Statistics
School Name	Tuition & Fees	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled	Acceptance Rate	Yield
University of Akron School of Law public, Akron, OH	$26,749 ($26,649)	762	446	201	58.53%	44.62%
The University of Alabama School of Law public, Tuscaloosa, AL	$48,999 ($25,879)	1,748	448	137	25.63%	30.58%
Albany Law School private, Albany, NY	$64,234	2,638	988	236	37.45%	22.77%
Washington College of Law private, Washington, DC	$69,172	5,952	1,981	400	33.28%	20.19%
Appalachian School of Law private, Grundy, VA	$41,000	732	446	88	60.93%	18.83%
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law public, Phoenix, AZ	$53,542 ($29,833)	4,610	912	264	19.78%	28.95%
James E. Rogers College of Law public, Tucson, AZ	$31,482 ($26,612)	1,781	497	109	27.91%	21.93%
University of Arkansas School of Law public, Fayetteville, AR	$41,651 ($18,781)	950	253	135	26.63%	53.36%
William H. Bowen School of Law public, Little Rock, AR	$37,816 ($17,474)	603	331	152	54.89%	45.32%
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School private, Atlanta, GA	$53,586	1,274	416	135	32.65%	31.97%
Ave Maria School of Law private, Naples, FL	$52,350	1,212	569	164	46.95%	26.71%
University of Baltimore School of Law public, Baltimore, MD	$53,172 ($36,418)	1,299	643	246	49.50%	37.33%
Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law private, Orlando, FL	$43,150	1,582	885	257	55.94%	29.04%
Baylor Law School private, Waco, TX	$67,412	3,658	753	165	20.59%	21.91%
Belmont University College of Law private, Nashville, TN	$57,705	1,337	503	136	37.62%	27.04%
Boston College Law School private, Newton, MA	$72,755	7,668	650	216	8.48%	33.23%
Boston University School of Law private, Boston, MA	$71,382	7,892	953	234	12.08%	24.55%
J. Reuben Clark Law School private, Provo, UT	$31,984	649	148	120	22.80%	81.08%
Brooklyn Law School private, Brooklyn, NY	$76,946	4,600	2,024	414	44.00%	20.45%
California Western School of Law private, San Diego, CA	$64,870	2,144	1,006	242	46.92%	23.36%
Berkeley School of Law public, Berkeley, CA	$79,991 ($66,374)	6,562	974	348	14.84%	35.73%
Davis School of Law public, Davis, CA	$72,115 ($59,870)	3,912	824	205	21.06%	24.88%
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco public, San Francisco, CA	$63,015 ($54,329)	4,593	1,262	374	27.48%	29.64%
Irvine School of Law public, Irvine, CA	$73,533 ($61,288)	3,720	555	188	14.92%	33.87%
Los Angeles School of Law public, Los Angeles, CA	$74,107 ($61,862)	8,623	1,039	322	12.05%	30.99%
Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law private, Raleigh, NC	$52,770	1,168	592	199	50.68%	33.28%
Capital University Law School private, Columbus, OH	$45,456	874	576	178	65.90%	30.21%
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law private, New York, NY	$76,458	3,833	1,133	319	29.56%	28.16%
Case Western Reserve University School of Law private, Cleveland, OH	$65,552	2,267	789	178	34.80%	22.56%
Columbus School of Law private, Washington, DC	$63,280	1,867	605	179	32.40%	29.59%
Chapman University School of Law private, Orange, CA	$63,201	2,514	516	152	20.53%	29.46%
Charleston School of Law private, Charleston, SC	$49,684	2,215	1,112	239	50.20%	21.31%
University of Chicago Law School private, Chicago, IL	$84,906	6,581	641	191	9.74%	29.80%
Chicago-Kent College of Law private, Chicago, IL	$55,890	2,212	854	244	38.61%	28.57%
University of Cincinnati College of Law public, Cincinnati, OH	$29,810 ($24,810)	1,353	443	135	32.74%	30.47%
City University of New York School of Law public, Long Island City, NY	$26,203 ($16,013)	2,300	659	212	28.65%	31.87%
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law public, Cleveland, OH	$31,666 ($31,566)	1,733	597	195	34.45%	32.66%
University of Colorado Boulder School of Law public, Boulder, CO	$45,335 ($37,325)	3,458	953	193	27.56%	20.15%
Columbia Law School private, New York, NY	$88,390	9,463	1,120	412	11.84%	36.70%
University of Connecticut School of Law public, Hartford, CT	$62,642 ($31,600)	2,299	461	149	20.05%	32.32%
Cornell Law School private, Ithaca, NY	$85,412	4,608	838	210	18.19%	25.06%
Creighton University School of Law private, Omaha, NE	$52,020	815	526	160	64.54%	30.42%
University of Dayton School of Law private, Dayton, OH	$40,145	1,611	494	167	30.66%	33.81%
Sturm College of Law private, Denver, CO	$63,812	2,214	915	283	41.33%	30.93%
DePaul University College of Law private, Chicago, IL	$55,628	2,643	920	185	34.81%	20.11%
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law private, Detroit, MI	$47,976	1,478	612	247	41.41%	40.20%
David A. Clarke School of Law public, Washington, DC	$25,874 ($13,438)	749	277	82	36.98%	25.99%
Drake University Law School private, Des Moines, IA	$51,390	788	432	141	54.82%	32.64%
Drexel University School of Law private, Philadelphia, PA	$58,850	2,689	797	177	29.64%	22.21%
Duke University School of Law private, Durham, NC	$81,829	6,240	804	222	12.88%	27.61%
Duquesne Kline School of Law private, Pittsburgh, PA	$60,118	1,432	619	183	43.23%	29.56%
Elon University School of Law private, Greensboro, NC	$45,333	1,107	589	228	53.21%	38.54%
Emory University School of Law private, Atlanta, GA	$70,472	3,931	1,183	391	30.09%	32.88%
Thomas Goode Jones School of Law private, Montgomery, AL	$40,400	620	334	167	53.87%	47.60%
Florida A&M University College of Law public, Orlando, FL	$33,111 ($13,851)	1,546	536	177	34.67%	33.02%
Florida International University College of Law public, Miami, FL	$37,834 ($22,205)	3,100	582	175	18.77%	30.07%
Florida State University College of Law public, Tallahassee, FL	$49,572 ($26,881)	2,711	433	153	15.97%	35.33%
Levin College of Law public, Gainesville, FL	$39,662 ($21,804)	3,887	642	228	16.52%	35.51%
Fordham University School of Law private, New York, NY	$79,248	8,811	1,429	433	16.22%	30.30%
George Mason University School of Law public, Arlington, VA	$43,946 ($27,832)	2,792	443	159	15.87%	35.89%
The George Washington University Law School private, Washington, DC	$75,420	9,718	2,644	595	27.21%	22.50%
Georgetown University Law Center private, Washington, DC	$83,576	13,924	2,193	629	15.75%	28.68%
Georgia State University College of Law public, Atlanta, GA	$39,320 ($17,596)	2,450	749	237	30.57%	31.64%
University of Georgia School of Law public, Athens, GA	$40,402 ($19,502)	4,695	597	186	12.72%	31.16%
Gonzaga University School of Law private, Spokane, MA	$58,787	1,273	651	201	51.14%	30.88%
Harvard Law School private, Cambridge, MA	$82,560	8,872	816	483	9.20%	59.19%
William S. Richardson School of Law public, Honolulu, HI	$47,500 ($24,076)	1,654	434	138	26.24%	31.57%
Hofstra University School of Law private, Hempstead, NY	$74,860	2,448	993	260	40.56%	26.08%
University of Houston Law Center public, Houston, TX	$52,279 ($37,554)	3,510	807	246	22.99%	30.48%
Howard University School of Law private, Washington, DC	$41,412	2,428	584	172	24.05%	29.11%
University of Idaho College of Law public, Moscow, ID	$46,752 ($27,516)	740	494	194	66.76%	39.27%
University of Illinois College of Law public, Champaign, IL	$49,904 ($39,904)	2,153	709	188	32.93%	26.38%
Maurer School of Law public, Bloomington, IN	$59,522 ($38,472)	1,831	655	186	35.77%	28.40%
Robert H. McKinney School of Law public, Indianapolis, IN	$53,158 ($33,083)	904	505	273	55.86%	54.06%
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law private, San Juan, PR	$17,760	542	276	205	50.92%	74.28%
University of Iowa College of Law public, Iowa City, IA	$54,736 ($33,489)	1,247	554	156	44.43%	28.16%
University of Illinois Chicago School of Law public, Chicago, IL	$45,875 ($38,398)	2,488	1,308	372	52.57%	28.21%
University of Kansas School of Law public, Lawrence, KS	$31,465 ($24,830)	1,172	458	115	39.08%	25.11%
University of Kentucky College of Law public, Lexington, KY	$51,452 ($27,301)	1,236	504	143	40.78%	28.37%
Lewis & Clark Law School private, Portland, OR	$61,484	1,133	620	171	54.72%	27.58%
Liberty University School of Law private, Lynchburg, VA	$45,348	628	369	140	58.76%	37.40%
Duncan School of Law private, Knoxville, TN	$48,809	828	432	163	52.17%	37.50%
Paul M. Hebert Law Center public, Baton Rouge, LA	$39,105 ($23,665)	1,253	483	230	38.55%	47.20%
Louis D. Brandeis School of Law public, Louisville, LA	$33,396 ($28,396)	579	367	145	63.39%	39.24%
Loyola Law School private, Los Angeles, CA	$71,386	4,549	1,185	337	26.05%	28.10%
Loyola University Chicago School of Law private, Chicago, IL	$59,666	4,244	1,196	291	28.18%	24.33%
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law private, New Orleans, LA	$56,894	1,241	632	223	50.93%	34.81%
University of Maine School of Law public, Portland, ME	$42,220 ($30,160)	915	341	93	37.27%	27.27%
Marquette University Law School private, Milwaukee, WI	$51,970	2,112	467	218	22.11%	46.68%
University of Maryland School of Law public, Baltimore, MD	$58,023 ($40,009)	2,876	750	229	26.08%	30.53%
McGeorge School of Law private, Sacramento, CA	$63,318	1,248	679	212	54.41%	30.49%
Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law public, Memphis, TN	$26,948 ($21,228)	582	239	96	41.07%	40.17%
Mercer Law School private, Macon, GA	$45,082	1,184	447	152	37.75%	34.00%
University of Miami School of Law private, Coral Gables, FL	$69,218	4,593	1,132	306	24.65%	27.03%
Michigan State University College of Law private, East Lansing, MI	$48,610	1,526	397	150	26.02%	37.78%
University of Michigan Law School public, Ann Arbor, MI	$79,680 ($76,680)	8,982	770	329	8.57%	42.73%
University of Minnesota Law School public, Minneapolis, MN	$64,523 ($54,118)	3,405	909	225	26.70%	24.75%
Mississippi College School of Law private, Jackson, MS	$39,642	806	482	178	59.80%	36.31%
University of Mississippi School of Law public, University, MS	$26,957 ($19,957)	958	402	160	41.96%	39.55%
University of Missouri School of Law public, Columbia, MO	$32,134 ($25,967)	798	335	125	41.98%	37.31%
University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law public, Kansas City, MO	$33,738 ($27,756)	714	328	142	45.94%	43.29%
Mitchell Hamline School of Law private, St. Paul, MN	$56,300	1,603	824	363	51.40%	43.69%
University of Montana School of Law public, Missoula, MT	$55,084 ($27,512)	568	292	95	51.41%	32.53%
University of Nebraska - Lincoln College of Law public, Lincoln, NE	$43,205 ($20,824)	1,096	440	152	40.15%	34.55%
William S. Boyd School of Law public, Las Vegas, NV	$47,650 ($33,128)	1,056	325	156	30.78%	48.00%
New England School of Law private, Boston, MA	$63,216	3,997	2,450	446	61.30%	18.16%
University of New Hampshire School of Law public, Concord, NH	$50,348 ($42,348)	1,455	756	245	51.96%	32.41%
University of New Mexico School of Law public, Albuquerque, NM	$44,738 ($21,020)	640	265	103	41.41%	38.49%
New York Law School private, New York, NY	$73,524	4,114	1,632	405	39.67%	24.51%
New York University School of Law private, New York, NY	$87,214	10,546	1,412	430	13.39%	30.45%
North Carolina Central University School of Law public, Durham, NC	$41,862 ($19,190)	1,303	509	133	39.06%	25.54%
University of North Carolina School of Law public, Chapel Hill, NC	$54,800 ($31,562)	3,459	387	176	11.19%	45.48%
University of North Dakota School of Law public, Grand Forks, ND	$37,843 ($19,848)	401	253	97	63.09%	38.34%
Northeastern University School of Law private, Boston, MA	$65,850	5,652	1,369	280	24.22%	20.38%
Northern Illinois University College of Law public, DeKalb, IL	$24,067	951	421	133	44.27%	31.12%
Salmon P. Chase College of Law public, Highland Heights, KY	$39,458 ($25,392)	661	388	150	58.70%	37.89%
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law private, Chicago, IL	$80,633	7,976	981	245	12.30%	24.97%
Notre Dame Law School private, Notre Dame, IL	$73,950	3,579	575	182	16.07%	31.65%
Shepard Broad Law Center private, Fort Lauderdale, FL	$50,710	1,458	690	224	47.33%	32.17%
Claude W. Pettit College of Law private, Ada, OH	$33,900	1,355	433	129	31.96%	29.79%
Michael E. Moritz College of Law public, Columbus, OH	$52,515 ($37,263)	2,291	564	158	24.62%	28.01%
Oklahoma City University School of Law private, Oklahoma City, OK	$44,886	715	369	156	51.61%	42.01%
University of Oklahoma College of Law public, Norman, OK	$39,631 ($25,013)	1,391	464	197	33.36%	42.24%
University of Oregon School of Law public, Eugene, OR	$60,867 ($48,612)	1,850	1,017	185	54.97%	18.19%
Pace University School of Law private, White Plains, NY	$57,756	2,293	1,012	323	44.13%	31.82%
Penn State Dickinson Law public, Carlisle, PA	$60,479	1,912	822	208	42.99%	25.30%
University of Pennsylvania Law School private, Philadelphia, PA	$84,492	8,074	650	254	8.05%	39.08%
Pepperdine University School of Law private, Malibu, CA	$73,550	4,272	998	223	23.36%	22.34%
University of Pittsburgh Law School public, Pittsburgh, PA	$55,131 ($41,633)	1,606	560	155	34.87%	27.68%
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Law private, Ponce, PR	$18,344	325	200	161	61.54%	80.50%
University of Puerto Rico School of Law public, San Juan, PR	$9,280	383	152	122	39.69%	79.61%
Quinnipiac University School of Law private, Hamden, CT	$57,760	1,485	640	133	43.10%	20.78%
Regent University School of Law private, Virginia Beach, VA	$45,536	537	238	126	44.32%	52.94%
University of Richmond School of Law private, University of Richmond School of Law, VA	$57,700	1,738	689	146	39.64%	21.19%
Roger Williams University School of Law private, Bristol, RI	$49,090	1,003	615	188	61.32%	30.24%
Rutgers Law School - Camden campus public, Camden, NJ	$51,893 ($35,607)	4,305	1,444	482	33.54%	33.24%
Saint Louis University School of Law private, Queens, NY	$56,190	941	531	221	56.43%	41.43%
Cumberland School of Law private, Birmingham, AL	$47,334	925	453	168	48.97%	37.09%
University of San Diego School of Law private, San Diego, CA	$67,751	4,241	997	239	23.51%	23.97%
University of San Francisco School of Law private, San Francisco, CA	$59,990	2,100	890	198	42.38%	22.25%
Santa Clara University School of Law private, Santa Clara, CA	$62,551	2,575	1,354	253	52.58%	18.69%
Seattle University School of Law private, Seattle, WA	$60,454	2,304	897	209	38.93%	23.30%
Seton Hall University School of Law private, Newark, NJ	$71,550	2,714	930	300	34.27%	32.26%
University of South Carolina School of Law public, Columbia, SC	$41,800 ($24,022)	2,114	632	215	29.90%	34.02%
University of South Dakota School of Law public, Vermillion, SD	$37,221 ($17,113)	405	253	85	62.47%	32.81%
South Texas College of Law private, Houston, TX	$44,960	2,770	932	437	33.65%	46.57%
Gould School of Law private, Los Angeles, CA	$85,948	7,204	805	227	11.17%	28.20%
Southern Illinois University School of Law public, Carbondale, IL	$22,635	724	407	132	56.22%	31.70%
Dedman School of Law private, Dallas, TX	$68,686	3,038	747	254	24.59%	34.00%
Southern University Law Center public, Baton Rouge, LA	$34,332 ($18,832)	1,153	652	297	56.55%	43.10%
Southwestern Law School private, Los Angeles, CA	$63,160	3,584	1,307	458	36.47%	34.74%
St. John's University School of Law private, Queens, NY	$76,742	4,417	1,018	238	23.05%	23.38%
St. Mary's University School of Law private, San Antonio, TX	$46,310	2,906	755	279	25.98%	36.16%
St. Thomas University School of Law private, Miami Gardens, FL	$47,578	1,771	1,067	424	60.25%	38.33%
University of St. Thomas School of Law private, Minneapolis, MN	$51,632	847	488	164	57.62%	33.61%
Stanford Law School private, Stanford, CA	$79,707	5,526	337	173	6.10%	51.34%
Stetson University College of Law private, Gulfport, FL	$57,017	2,791	1,017	333	36.44%	32.74%
Suffolk University Law School private, Boston, MA	$64,046	3,481	2,153	541	61.85%	25.03%
Syracuse University College of Law private, Syracuse, NY	$66,940	2,752	952	268	34.59%	27.94%
Beasley School of Law public, Philadelphia, PA	$50,545 ($34,137)	3,043	742	232	24.38%	31.27%
University of Tennessee College of Law public, Knoxville, TN	$39,322 ($20,562)	2,176	539	139	24.77%	25.79%
Texas A&M University School of Law public, Fort Worth, TX	$48,522 ($32,634)	5,240	634	121	12.10%	19.09%
University of Texas School of Law public, Austin, TX	$56,822 ($38,236)	6,297	881	361	13.99%	40.98%
Thurgood Marshall School of Law public, Houston, TX	$28,167 ($21,038)	2,032	673	219	33.12%	30.76%
Texas Tech University School of Law public, Lubbock, TX	$38,782 ($27,532)	2,011	515	168	25.61%	31.65%
University of Toledo College of Law public, Toledo, OH	$30,598 ($29,598)	732	384	125	52.46%	32.55%
Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center private, Central Islip, NY	$62,150	1,462	667	222	45.62%	33.28%
Tulane University School of Law private, New Orleans, LA	$74,756	2,069	827	240	39.97%	28.90%
University of Tulsa College of Law private, Tulsa, OK	$32,300	509	288	118	56.58%	40.97%
University at Buffalo Law School public, Buffalo, NY	$35,420 ($29,750)	977	414	163	42.37%	39.37%
University of Massachusetts School of Law public, North Dartmouth, MA	$43,255 ($33,456)	1,311	684	140	52.17%	20.18%
UNT Dallas College of Law public, Dallas, TX	$31,157 ($18,645)	1,883	456	127	24.22%	27.85%
S.J. Quinney College of Law public, Salt Lake City, UT	$46,490 ($35,829)	1,495	378	106	25.28%	28.04%
Vanderbilt University Law School private, Nashville, TN	$78,799	6,124	812	170	13.26%	20.94%
Vermont Law School private, South Royalton, VT	$56,457	1,553	909	289	58.53%	31.79%
Villanova University School of Law private, Villanova, PA	$60,750	2,889	749	231	25.93%	30.84%
University of Virginia School of Law public, Charlottesville, VA	$80,900 ($77,900)	6,734	685	302	10.17%	44.09%
Wake Forest University School of Law private, Winston-Salem, NC	$59,144	2,883	710	201	24.63%	28.31%
Washburn University School of Law public, Topeka, KS	$42,725 ($28,886)	549	255	136	46.45%	53.33%
Washington and Lee University School of Law private, Lexington, VA	$59,940	2,341	532	128	22.73%	24.06%
Washington University School of Law private, St. Louis, MO	$73,684	5,616	1,065	258	18.96%	24.23%
University of Washington School of Law public, Seattle, WA	$58,956 ($47,073)	3,412	669	202	19.61%	30.19%
Wayne State University Law School public, Detroit, MI	$46,365 ($42,594)	1,290	320	128	24.81%	40.00%
West Virginia University College of Law public, Morgantown, WV	$47,070 ($27,774)	590	238	114	40.34%	47.90%
Cooley Law School private, Lansing, MI	$46,880	1,323	700	237	52.91%	33.57%
Western New England University School of Law private, Springfield, MA	$53,020	871	452	112	51.89%	24.78%
Western State College of Law private, Irvine, CA	$55,648	916	400	113	43.67%	28.25%
Widener Law Commonwealth private, Harrisburg, PA	$59,806	909	549	156	60.40%	28.23%
Willamette University College of Law private, Salem, OR	$56,680	858	527	139	61.42%	26.38%
Marshall-Wythe School of Law public, Williamsburg, VA	$70,839 ($46,102)	2,176	478	181	21.97%	37.87%
University of Wisconsin Law School public, Madison, MI	$55,300 ($38,186)	2,479	474	220	19.12%	46.41%
University of Wyoming College of Law public, Laramie, WY	$39,783 ($20,595)	483	173	71	35.82%	41.04%
Yale Law School private, New Haven, CT	$78,961	5,562	226	175	4.06%	77.43%
Jacksonville University College of Law private, Jacksonville, FL	$36,820	572	201	67	35.14%	33.33%
Widener Law Delaware private, Wilmington, DE	$59,653	1,317	786	276	59.68%	35.11%
Wilmington University School of Law private, New Castle, DE	$56,457	273	142	73	52.01%	48.59%