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New York, New York

Fordham University School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1936
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
168
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.79
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$78,078
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
444
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
85.5%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
90.8%
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 2018

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2018)
Covers
Report year 2018
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 applications5,319Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission1,375Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate25.9%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment41535857
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th161 / 164 / 166161 / 164 / 166158 / 161 / 164
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.38 / 3.60 / 3.703.40 / 3.60 / 3.713.22 / 3.49 / 3.70
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 161 · Median 164 · 75th 166
LSAT: published 25th percentile 161, median 164, 75th percentile 166.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.38 · Median 3.60 · 75th 3.70
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.38, median 3.60, 75th percentile 3.70.

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 2018. 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 (2018)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
1,245
1L
415
2L
407
3L
382
4L
41
J.D. degrees awarded
369

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
1.2%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.1%
Transfers in
19
1L transfers out
0
Transfer GPA median
3.47

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