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Hempstead, New York

Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1971
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
157
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.65
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$73,344
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
263
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
86.3%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
79.2%
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 2020

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
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 applications2,555Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission1,174Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate46%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment27626412
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th151 / 154 / 157151 / 154 / 157149 / 151 / 157
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.08 / 3.37 / 3.623.08 / 3.37 / 3.602.98 / 3.26 / 3.79
Students with GRE scores0Not reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 151 · Median 154 · 75th 157
LSAT: published 25th percentile 151, median 154, 75th percentile 157.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.08 · Median 3.37 · 75th 3.62
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.08, median 3.37, 75th percentile 3.62.

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 2020. 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 (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
823
1L
280
2L
265
3L
268
4L
10
J.D. degrees awarded
241

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
2.6%
1L other attrition
6%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.4%
Transfers in
14
1L transfers out
6
Transfer GPA median
2.94

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