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Notre Dame, Indiana

Notre Dame Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1925
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
170
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.89
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$73,430
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
185
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
93.3%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
89.4%
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 2020

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications2,811Not applicable
Offers of admission570Not applicable
Acceptance rate20.3%Not applicable
First-year enrollment155155
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th161 / 167 / 168161 / 167 / 168
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.34 / 3.75 / 3.883.34 / 3.75 / 3.88
Students with GRE scores0Not reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2020, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 161 · Median 167 · 75th 168
LSAT: published 25th percentile 161, median 167, 75th percentile 168.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.34 · Median 3.75 · 75th 3.88
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.34, median 3.75, 75th percentile 3.88.

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 2020. 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 (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
552
1L
156
2L
209
3L
187
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
200

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
0.9%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
0
1L transfers out
2
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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