New York, New York

New York Law School

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1954
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: 3.63; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $71,052; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 409; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 74.8%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 86.5%; 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 — 2019-2020

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 (2019)
Covers: Report year 2019
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	$26,276	$915
Full-time · nonresident	$26,276	$915
Part-time · resident	$20,232	$664
Part-time · nonresident	$20,232	$664

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 (2019)
Covers: Report year 2019
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$29,645
Living off campus$23,759
Living at home$10,719

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$26,276
Mandatory fees$915
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$23,759

PreLaw Advisor total$50,950

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 (2019–2020 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2019)
Covers: Report year 2019
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	1,016	785	231
Receiving grants	789	640	149
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	355	283	72
Half to full tuition	220	182	38
Full tuition	125	97	28
More than full tuition	89	78	11
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$15,000	$10,000
Median grant	Not applicable	$27,500	$20,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$50,008	$38,536

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 (2019)
Covers: Report year 2019
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2017-2018288 received · 106 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2016-2017320 received · 132 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2015-2016267 received · 100 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.