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New York, New York

NYU School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1930
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
172
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.92
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$83,952
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
452
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
98.1%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
96.9%
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 2017

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2017)
Covers
Report year 2017
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll students
Completed applications6,534
Offers of admission1,778
Acceptance rate27.2%
First-year enrollment427
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th166 / 169 / 170
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.66 / 3.83 / 3.90
Students with GRE scoresNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2017, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 166 · Median 169 · 75th 170
LSAT: published 25th percentile 166, median 169, 75th percentile 170.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.66 · Median 3.83 · 75th 3.90
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.66, median 3.83, 75th percentile 3.90.

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 2017. 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 (2017)
Covers
Report year 2017
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
1,364
1L
429
2L
527
3L
408
4L
Not reported
J.D. degrees awarded
484

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
Not reported
1L other attrition
Not reported
Upper-level academic attrition
Not reported
Transfers in
58
1L transfers out
0
Transfer GPA median
3.57

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