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Boston, Massachusetts

Northeastern University School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1969
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
164
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.77
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$65,652
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
283
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
82.2%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
90.5%
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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2023

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
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 applications3,775Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission1,407Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate37.3%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment23520134
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th158 / 163 / 165158 / 163 / 165156 / 159 / 165
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.52 / 3.72 / 3.833.55 / 3.72 / 3.843.22 / 3.59 / 3.82
Students with GRE scores101
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 158 · Median 163 · 75th 165
LSAT: published 25th percentile 158, median 163, 75th percentile 165.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.52 · Median 3.72 · 75th 3.83
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.52, median 3.72, 75th percentile 3.83.

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 2023. 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 (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
690
1L
265
2L
201
3L
224
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
204

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
0%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
5
1L transfers out
11
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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