Chicago, Illinois

Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1925
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time and Part-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 161; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.70; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $58,670; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 296; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 79.7%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 85.7%; 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 — 2025-2026

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 (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
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	$58,670	$996
Full-time · nonresident	$58,670	$996
Part-time · resident	$44,030	$380
Part-time · nonresident	$44,030	$380

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 (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$32,658
Living off campus$32,658
Living at home$32,658
Living on a military base$12,702

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$58,670
Mandatory fees$996
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$32,658

PreLaw Advisor total$92,324

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 (2025–2026 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
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	832	686	146
Receiving grants	781	649	132
% receiving grants	94%	95%	90%
Less than half tuition	290	226	64
Half to full tuition	471	405	66
Full tuition	18	16	2
More than full tuition	2	2	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$22,000	$15,000
Median grant	Not applicable	$30,000	$21,900
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$35,000	$25,000

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 (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports that it does not offer conditional scholarships.

Entering 2024-20250 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2023-20240 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2022-20230 received · 0 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.