Columbus, Ohio

Capital University Law School

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1950
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time and Part-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 151; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.44; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $45,066; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 180; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 71.9%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 73.7%; 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	$36,112	Not reported
Full-time · nonresident	$36,112	Not reported
Part-time · resident	$22,394	Not reported
Part-time · nonresident	$22,394	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 off campus$18,172
Living at home$18,172

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$36,112
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$18,172

PreLaw Advisor total$54,284

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	378	240	138
Receiving grants	300	194	106
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	197	108	89
Half to full tuition	100	84	16
Full tuition	3	2	1
More than full tuition	0	0	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$8,500	$4,419
Median grant	Not applicable	$15,125	$7,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$22,000	$10,250

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 2016-2017111 received · 35 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2015-201690 received · 16 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2014-201592 received · 21 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.