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 — 2023-2024

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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	$62,644	$2,180
Full-time · nonresident	$62,644	$2,180
Part-time · resident	$48,236	$1,582
Part-time · nonresident	$48,236	$1,582

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living off campus$25,805
Living at home$12,765

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$62,644
Mandatory fees$2,180
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$25,805

PreLaw Advisor total$90,629

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 (2023–2024 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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	1,037	878	159
Receiving grants	817	693	124
% receiving grants	79%	79%	78%
Less than half tuition	303	256	47
Half to full tuition	311	268	43
Full tuition	143	118	25
More than full tuition	60	51	9
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$19,800	$15,750
Median grant	Not applicable	$37,500	$30,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$52,500	$45,292

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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 2022-2023327 received · 136 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-2022391 received · 173 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2020-2021320 received · 116 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.