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Arlington, Virginia

George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1980
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
169
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.93
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$24,864
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
159
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
81.4%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
86.3%
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 — 2023-2024

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 (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Tuition and fees by program and residency
ProgramTuitionFees
Full-time · resident$24,136$2,814
Full-time · nonresident$39,984$2,814
Part-time · per credit (resident)$862$2,111

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 (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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  • Living on campus$35,466
  • Living off campus$35,466
  • Living at home$15,796

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$24,136
  • Mandatory fees$2,814
  • Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$35,466
PreLaw Advisor total$62,416

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 (2023–2024 students)

Not published

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 (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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The school reports offering conditional scholarships (awards that can be reduced or eliminated, e.g. for grades).

  • Entering 2022-20230 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
  • Entering 2021-20220 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
  • Entering 2020-20219 received · 6 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.