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 — 2022-2023

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 (2022)
Covers: Report year 2022
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	$15,430	$563
Full-time · nonresident	$25,640	$563
Part-time · resident	$10,610	$348
Part-time · nonresident	$17,630	$348
Full-time · per credit (resident)	$655	$563
Part-time · per credit (resident)	$655	$348

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 (2022)
Covers: Report year 2022
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living off campus$25,588
Living at home$10,830

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$15,430
Mandatory fees$563
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$25,588

PreLaw Advisor total$41,581

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 (2022–2023 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2022)
Covers: Report year 2022
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	696	471	225
Receiving grants	282	229	53
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	186	160	26
Half to full tuition	66	43	23
Full tuition	17	17	0
More than full tuition	13	9	4
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$3,300	$1,500
Median grant	Not applicable	$6,000	$6,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$9,021	$6,000

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 (2022)
Covers: Report year 2022
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2019-20200 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2018-20190 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2017-20180 received · 0 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.