Naples, Florida

Ave Maria School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 2002
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 155; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.36; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $49,500; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 165; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 81.5%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 77.5%; 2025 graduates

Latest verified values from ABA required disclosures. Each dataset describes a different class, as labelled. The job share is PreLaw Advisor’s arithmetic (full-time, long-term bar-passage-required positions ÷ total graduates), not an ABA-published figure.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2017-2018

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Tuition and fees by program and residency
Program	Tuition	Fees
Full-time · resident	$41,706	Not reported
Full-time · nonresident	$41,706	Not reported

Living expenses (school estimates)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$23,824
Living off campus$23,824
Living at home$23,824

Annual estimates for single students, as reported by the school. Books, transportation and insurance are not itemized in ABA disclosures.

Estimated annual cost (calculation)

Tuition$41,706
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$23,824

PreLaw Advisor total$65,530

Not included (not published): Mandatory fees.

Sum of the school-published figures above. It is not the school’s official cost of attendance and assumes no scholarship.

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Grants & scholarships (2017–2018 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Grant recipients and amounts
Measure	All	Full-time	Part-time
Total students	248	240	8
Receiving grants	204	177	27
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	81	71	10
Half to full tuition	57	48	9
Full tuition	48	45	3
More than full tuition	18	13	5
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$2,500	$1,250
Median grant	Not applicable	$16,000	$8,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$39,450	$19,725

The ABA publishes grant percentiles by full-time/part-time status only. These describe past awards; they do not indicate what any applicant will receive.

Conditional scholarships

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2016-201775 received · 31 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2015-201688 received · 29 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2014-201589 received · 31 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.