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East Lansing, Michigan

Michigan State University College of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1941
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
162
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.73
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$43,480
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
150
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
81.2%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
77.4%
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 2022

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2022)
Covers
Report year 2022
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 applications1,449Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission636Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate43.9%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment2122102
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th153 / 157 / 159153 / 157 / 159Not reported
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.15 / 3.52 / 3.763.15 / 3.52 / 3.76Not reported
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 153 · Median 157 · 75th 159
LSAT: published 25th percentile 153, median 157, 75th percentile 159.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.15 · Median 3.52 · 75th 3.76
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.15, median 3.52, 75th percentile 3.76.

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 2022. 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 (2022)
Covers
Report year 2022
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
635
1L
210
2L
230
3L
195
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
227

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
1.7%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.2%
Transfers in
2
1L transfers out
8
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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