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Davie, Florida

Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1975
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
155
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.52
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$49,350
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
225
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
69.5%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
74.5%
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 — 2023-2024

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 (2023)
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Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Tuition and fees by program and residency
ProgramTuitionFees
Full-time · resident$46,339$1,390
Full-time · nonresident$46,339$1,390
Part-time · resident$34,747$1,390
Part-time · nonresident$34,747$1,390

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 (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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  • Living off campus$38,800
  • Living at home$15,409

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$46,339
  • Mandatory fees$1,390
  • Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$38,800
PreLaw Advisor total$86,529

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 (2023–2024 students)

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Grant recipients and amounts
MeasureAllFull-timePart-time
Total students62052397
Receiving grants33629442
% receiving grants54%56%43%
Less than half tuition26722938
Half to full tuition68653
Full tuition000
More than full tuition000
25th percentile grantNot applicable$10,000$2,500
Median grantNot applicable$15,000$5,000
75th percentile grantNot applicable$20,000$7,500

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 (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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The school reports that it does not offer conditional scholarships.

  • Entering 2022-2023153 received · 2 reduced or eliminated
  • Entering 2021-202281 received · 10 reduced or eliminated
  • Entering 2020-2021105 received · 32 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.