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.

J.D. program formats

Full-time J.D.: Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
Part-time J.D.: Offered. The school is on the ABA Council’s list of approved part-time programs.
Distance-education J.D.: Not on the ABA Council’s distance-education J.D. list.

Formats come from the ABA Council’s published lists, not from the school’s marketing. What each format means

Programs published by the school

Clinics and field placements

Supervised legal work with real clients or in real legal settings, for credit.

CLEAR ClinicSchool page for CLEAR Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Community & Economic Development ClinicSchool page for Community & Economic Development Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Defenders ClinicSchool page for Defenders Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Disability Rights and Social Justice ClinicSchool page for Disability Rights and Social Justice Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Equality & Justice In-House ClinicSchool page for Equality & Justice In-House Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Equality & Justice Practice ClinicSchool page for Equality & Justice Practice Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Family Defense ClinicSchool page for Family Defense Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Family Law Practice ClinicSchool page for Family Law Practice Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Human Rights & Gender Justice ClinicSchool page for Human Rights & Gender Justice Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights ClinicSchool page for Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Mediation ClinicSchool page for Mediation Clinic (opens in a new tab)

Centers and institutes

Research and program centers that organize a school's teaching, scholarship and events in a field.

Center for Diversity in the Legal ProfessionSchool page for Center for Diversity in the Legal Profession (opens in a new tab)
Center for Urban Environmental ReformSchool page for Center for Urban Environmental Reform (opens in a new tab)
Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative PeaceSchool page for Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace (opens in a new tab)

14 programs read from City University of New York School of Law’s own website and reviewed before publication, most recently verified Sep 2026. The list covers structured academic offerings, not student organizations, and may not be complete.

Curriculum & faculty (2025 ABA report)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Curricular Offerings (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Course titles beyond 1L

121

Clinic positions available

323

301 filled

Field placements filled

Simulation course seats

686

Co-curricular offerings

Full-time faculty

96 total faculty

Clinic and simulation seat counts are only mapped from report layouts that define them unambiguously (2025 onward).