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.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2024-2025

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
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	$70,870	$716
Full-time · nonresident	$70,870	$716
Part-time · resident	$53,152	$474
Part-time · nonresident	$53,152	$474

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$31,629
Living off campus$35,115
Living at home$19,875

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$70,870
Mandatory fees$716
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$35,115

PreLaw Advisor total$106,701

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 (2024–2025 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
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	792	40
Receiving grants	703	678	25
% receiving grants	84%	86%	63%
Less than half tuition	331	312	19
Half to full tuition	149	147	2
Full tuition	223	219	4
More than full tuition	0	0	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$15,000	$5,625
Median grant	Not applicable	$35,000	$17,500
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$68,860	$33,750

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
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 2023-2024226 received · 118 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2022-2023219 received · 109 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-2022227 received · 111 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.