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 — 2019-2020

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 (2019)
Covers: Report year 2019
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	$13,877	$805
Full-time · nonresident	$13,927	$805
Part-time · per credit (resident)	$1,067	$62

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 (2019)
Covers: Report year 2019
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$13,877
Mandatory fees$805
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$19,988

PreLaw Advisor total$34,670

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 (2019–2020 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2019)
Covers: Report year 2019
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	357	265	92
Receiving grants	263	221	42
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	93	75	18
Half to full tuition	138	123	15
Full tuition	32	23	9
More than full tuition	0	0	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$6,820	$3,420
Median grant	Not applicable	$13,640	$6,820
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$20,460	$10,230

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 (2019)
Covers: Report year 2019
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.