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

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2017-2018

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
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	$27,360	Not reported
Full-time · nonresident	$37,580	Not reported
Part-time · resident	$21,977	Not reported
Part-time · nonresident	$30,232	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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$19,988
Living off campus$19,988
Living at home$19,988

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$27,360
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$19,988

PreLaw Advisor total$47,348

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 (2017–2018 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
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	336	249	87
Receiving grants	185	160	25
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	60	55	5
Half to full tuition	125	105	20
Full tuition	0	0	0
More than full tuition	0	0	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$5,768	$2,476
Median grant	Not applicable	$11,537	$4,952
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$17,306	$7,428

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2016-201745 received · 9 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2015-201678 received · 35 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2014-2015113 received · 68 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.