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.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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 — 2024-2025

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Tuition and fees by program and residency
Program	Tuition	Fees
Full-time · resident	$47,850	$1,200
Full-time · nonresident	$47,850	$1,200
Part-time · resident	$35,900	$1,200
Part-time · nonresident	$35,900	$1,200

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
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$47,850
Mandatory fees$1,200
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$38,800

PreLaw Advisor total$87,850

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 (2024–2025 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Grant recipients and amounts
Measure	All	Full-time	Part-time
Total students	630	530	100
Receiving grants	434	378	56
% receiving grants	69%	71%	56%
Less than half tuition	328	281	47
Half to full tuition	105	96	9
Full tuition	1	1	0
More than full tuition	0	0	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$12,500	$3,750
Median grant	Not applicable	$15,375	$11,250
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$25,000	$15,000

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports that it does not offer conditional scholarships.

Entering 2022-202381 received · 10 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-2022105 received · 32 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.