Highland Heights, Kentucky
Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law
- Accreditation
- ABA approved since 1954
- Institution type
- Public
- J.D. formats
- Full-time and Part-time J.D.
- Median LSAT
- 154
- Median GPA
- 3.41
- Resident tuition
- $24,388
- First-year class
- 155
- Bar-required jobs
- 68.8%
- First-time bar passage
- 76.2%
J.D. program formats
- Full-time J.D.
- Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
- Part-time J.D.
- Offered. The school is on the ABA Council’s list of approved part-time programs.
- Distance-education J.D.
- Not on the ABA Council’s distance-education J.D. list.
Formats come from the ABA Council’s published lists, not from the school’s marketing. What each format means
Programs published by the school
Master's degrees for non-lawyers
Graduate degrees in legal studies for professionals who work with the law but do not intend to practise. They do not qualify graduates to sit for the bar.
- Master of Legal StudiesSchool page for Master of Legal Studies (opens in a new tab)
Curriculum & faculty (2025 ABA report)
Source
- Organization
- American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
- Document
- ABA Standard 509 compilation — Curricular Offerings (2025)
- Covers
- Report year 2025
- Retrieved
- Sep 23, 2026
- Status
- Verified · Sep 23, 2026
Course titles beyond 1L
78
Clinic positions available
42
30 filled
Field placements filled
93
Simulation course seats
212
Co-curricular offerings
3
Full-time faculty
24
64 total faculty
Clinic and simulation seat counts are only mapped from report layouts that define them unambiguously (2025 onward).
