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Long Island City, New York

City University of New York School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1985
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
155
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.54
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$15,450
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
219
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
73.4%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
69%
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.

Published class percentiles — fall 2025

LSAT25th 152 · Median 155 · 75th 161
LSAT: published 25th percentile 152, median 155, 75th percentile 161.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.26 · Median 3.54 · 75th 3.77
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.26, median 3.54, 75th percentile 3.77.

Published percentiles describe the class that enrolled; they are not an admissions prediction and PreLaw Advisor does not estimate anyone’s chances. Sign in to compare your own numbers privately.

Over the years on file

Median LSAT

1552025

2017: 1532018: 1542019: 1542020: 1542021: 1552022: 1542023: 1532024: 1542025: 155
Acceptance rate

28.6%2025

2017: 40.6%2018: 38.1%2019: 37.7%2020: 34.5%2021: 29.6%2022: 35.3%2023: 39.9%2024: 40.3%2025: 28.6%
Applications

2,3002025

2017: 1,4602018: 1,6062019: 1,6492020: 1,7612021: 1,9982022: 1,7552023: 1,5722024: 1,6732025: 2,300
First-time bar passage

69.0%2026

2018: 86.3%2019: 73.9%2020: 75.0%2021: 65.9%2022: 73.4%2023: 74.6%2024: 55.9%2025: 65.7%2026: 69.0%

Each line fits its own range, so it shows direction over time and cannot be compared with another school’s. Admissions figures use the ABA report year (the fall entering class); bar passage uses the report year, which covers the previous year’s graduates.