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.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2018-2019

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 (2018)
Covers: Report year 2018
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	$7,782	Not reported
Full-time · nonresident	$12,732	Not reported
Part-time · resident	$5,324	Not reported
Part-time · nonresident	$8,734	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 (2018)
Covers: Report year 2018
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living off campus$20,512
Living at home$9,762

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$7,782
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$20,512

PreLaw Advisor total$28,294

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 (2018–2019 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2018)
Covers: Report year 2018
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	482	343	139
Receiving grants	180	152	28
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	82	74	8
Half to full tuition	54	36	18
Full tuition	37	35	2
More than full tuition	7	7	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$4,000	$3,750
Median grant	Not applicable	$8,000	$7,500
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$15,113	$7,500

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 (2018)
Covers: Report year 2018
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2017-20180 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2016-20170 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2015-20160 received · 0 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.