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Orange, California

Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1998
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
163
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.70
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$63,126
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
153
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
76.2%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
80.3%
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 2019

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2019)
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Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications1,743Not applicable
Offers of admission592Not applicable
Acceptance rate34%Not applicable
First-year enrollment148148
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th155 / 158 / 160155 / 158 / 160
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.28 / 3.49 / 3.643.28 / 3.49 / 3.64
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2019, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 155 · Median 158 · 75th 160
LSAT: published 25th percentile 155, median 158, 75th percentile 160.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.28 · Median 3.49 · 75th 3.64
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.28, median 3.49, 75th percentile 3.64.

The school did not publish full GRE percentiles for this class, so a GRE comparison is not shown. PreLaw Advisor does not convert GRE scores into LSAT equivalents.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2019. 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 (2019)
Covers
Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
460
1L
150
2L
151
3L
159
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
171

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
7.7%
1L other attrition
5.8%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
9
1L transfers out
4
Transfer GPA median
3.23

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