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San Diego, California

California Western School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1962
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
155
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.50
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$64,720
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
242
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
74.1%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
71.4%
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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2020

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-timePart-time
Completed applications1,615Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission856Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate53%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment24922029
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th149 / 152 / 154149 / 152 / 154149 / 151 / 153
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.95 / 3.24 / 3.472.99 / 3.26 / 3.472.72 / 3.06 / 3.39
Students with GRE scores12Not reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 149 · Median 152 · 75th 154
LSAT: published 25th percentile 149, median 152, 75th percentile 154.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.95 · Median 3.24 · 75th 3.47
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.95, median 3.24, 75th percentile 3.47.
GRE Verbal25th 151 · Median 152 · 75th 158
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 151, median 152, 75th percentile 158.
GRE Quantitative25th 146 · Median 149 · 75th 153
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 146, median 149, 75th percentile 153.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2020. Being above or below a published percentile does not determine an admissions decision.

J.D. enrollment

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — JD Enrollment and Ethnicity (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
682
1L
225
2L
246
3L
211
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
207

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
3.9%
1L other attrition
2.2%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.2%
Transfers in
0
1L transfers out
9
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

Transfer GPA percentiles are only published when a school admits 12 or more transfer students.