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Chicago, Illinois

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1923
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
173
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.96
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$79,772
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
250
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
92%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
91.8%
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.

Published class percentiles — fall 2025

LSAT25th 167 · Median 173 · 75th 175
LSAT: published 25th percentile 167, median 173, 75th percentile 175.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.76 · Median 3.96 · 75th 4.00
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.76, median 3.96, 75th percentile 4.00.

Published percentiles describe the class that enrolled; they are not an admissions prediction and PreLaw Advisor does not estimate anyone’s chances. Sign in to compare your own numbers privately.

Median LSAT

1732025

2017: 1682018: 1692019: 1692020: 1692021: 1712022: 1712023: 1722024: 1722025: 173
Acceptance rate

12.3%2025

2017: 23.8%2018: 19.3%2019: 18.0%2020: 19.2%2021: 13.9%2022: 15.1%2023: 15.5%2024: 15.4%2025: 12.3%
Applications

7,9762025

2017: 4,4722018: 5,3132019: 5,4412020: 5,3022021: 7,4102022: 6,2472023: 6,2252024: 6,3272025: 7,976
First-time bar passage

91.8%2026

2018: 90.6%2019: 92.0%2020: 92.0%2021: 96.0%2022: 95.0%2023: 92.9%2024: 91.6%2025: 91.8%2026: 91.8%

Each line fits its own range, so it shows direction over time and cannot be compared with another school’s. Admissions figures use the ABA report year (the fall entering class); bar passage uses the report year, which covers the previous year’s graduates.