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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.

Latest verified year

First-year class — fall 2025

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2025)
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Report year 2025
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 applications2,300Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission659Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate28.7%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment21916158
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th152 / 155 / 161153 / 156 / 161150 / 152 / 159
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.26 / 3.54 / 3.773.32 / 3.62 / 3.823.12 / 3.43 / 3.65
Students with GRE scores000
Students with JD-Next scores211

Where published numbers fall

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.

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 2025. 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 (2025)
Covers
Report year 2025
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
695
1L
220
2L
223
3L
207
4L
45
J.D. degrees awarded
192

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
1%
1L other attrition
1%
Upper-level academic attrition
1%
Transfers in
6
1L transfers out
3
Transfer GPA median
3.06

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