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Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland State University College of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1957
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
155
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.50
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$29,766
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
195
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
72.7%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
72.7%
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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2019

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2019)
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Report year 2019
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 applications698Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission335Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate48%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment14411529
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th150 / 154 / 157150 / 154 / 157152 / 153 / 155
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.23 / 3.43 / 3.693.24 / 3.47 / 3.703.02 / 3.34 / 3.56
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 150 · Median 154 · 75th 157
LSAT: published 25th percentile 150, median 154, 75th percentile 157.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.23 · Median 3.43 · 75th 3.69
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.23, median 3.43, 75th percentile 3.69.

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 2019. 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 (2019)
Covers
Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
403
1L
144
2L
131
3L
95
4L
33
J.D. degrees awarded
88

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
10%
1L other attrition
2.1%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
6
1L transfers out
0
Transfer GPA median
3.26

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