New York, New York

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1978
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 165; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.78; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $74,438; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 326; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 89.1%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 87.8%; 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 — 2019-2020

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 (2019)
Covers: Report year 2019
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	$30,869	$335
Full-time · nonresident	$30,869	$335
Part-time · resident	$20,579	$223
Part-time · nonresident	$20,579	$223

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 (2019)
Covers: Report year 2019
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$28,664
Living off campus$28,664
Living at home$28,664

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$30,869
Mandatory fees$335
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$28,664

PreLaw Advisor total$59,868

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 (2019–2020 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2019)
Covers: Report year 2019
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	976	891	85
Receiving grants	910	840	70
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	281	246	35
Half to full tuition	472	442	30
Full tuition	157	152	5
More than full tuition	0	0	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$25,000	$10,000
Median grant	Not applicable	$44,000	$28,340
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$54,000	$48,750

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 (2019)
Covers: Report year 2019
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2017-20180 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2016-20170 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2015-20160 received · 0 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.