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 — 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	$66,716	$2,322
Full-time · nonresident	$66,716	$2,322
Part-time · resident	$51,372	$1,686
Part-time · nonresident	$51,372	$1,686

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 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$66,716
Mandatory fees$2,322
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$23,759

PreLaw Advisor total$92,797

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	1,048	898	150
Receiving grants	1,005	865	140
% receiving grants	96%	96%	93%
Less than half tuition	454	387	67
Half to full tuition	330	288	42
Full tuition	5	4	1
More than full tuition	216	186	30
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$10,091	$4,836
Median grant	Not applicable	$35,000	$26,542
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$50,000	$40,690

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 2023-2024314 received · 71 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2022-2023327 received · 136 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-2022391 received · 173 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.