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 — 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	$27,778	$1,674
Full-time · nonresident	$27,878	$1,674
Full-time · per credit (resident)	$1,068	$1,674
Part-time · per credit (resident)	$1,068	$0

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 on campus$20,472
Living off campus$20,472
Living at home$20,472

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$27,778
Mandatory fees$1,674
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$20,472

PreLaw Advisor total$49,924

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	420	331	89
Receiving grants	316	266	50
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	156	126	30
Half to full tuition	133	115	18
Full tuition	27	25	2
More than full tuition	0	0	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$7,218	$5,534
Median grant	Not applicable	$14,437	$11,106
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$21,655	$16,659

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.