Columbus, Ohio
Capital University Law School
- Accreditation
- ABA approved since 1950
- Institution type
- Private
- J.D. formats
- Full-time and Part-time J.D.
- Median LSAT
- 151
- Median GPA
- 3.44
- Resident tuition
- $45,066
- First-year class
- 180
- Bar-required jobs
- 71.9%
- First-time bar passage
- 73.7%
J.D. program formats
- Full-time J.D.
- Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
- Part-time J.D.
- Offered. The school is on the ABA Council’s list of approved part-time programs.
- Distance-education J.D.
- Not on the ABA Council’s distance-education J.D. list.
Formats come from the ABA Council’s published lists, not from the school’s marketing. What each format means
Programs published by the school
Clinics and field placements
Supervised legal work with real clients or in real legal settings, for credit.
- Mediation ClinicSchool page for Mediation Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Journals and advocacy programs
Student-edited publications and competitive advocacy programs.
- The Capital University Law ReviewSchool page for The Capital University Law Review (opens in a new tab)
Curriculum & faculty (2025 ABA report)
Source
- Organization
- American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
- Document
- ABA Standard 509 compilation — Curricular Offerings (2025)
- Covers
- Report year 2025
- Retrieved
- Sep 23, 2026
- Status
- Verified · Sep 23, 2026
Course titles beyond 1L
83
Clinic positions available
50
40 filled
Field placements filled
142
Simulation course seats
1,094
Co-curricular offerings
7
Full-time faculty
25
78 total faculty
Clinic and simulation seat counts are only mapped from report layouts that define them unambiguously (2025 onward).
