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Malibu, California

Rick J. Caruso School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1972
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
164
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.85
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$72,920
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
227
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
91.8%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
90.7%
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 2019

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2019)
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Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications3,006Not applicable
Offers of admission896Not applicable
Acceptance rate29.8%Not applicable
First-year enrollment191191
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th157 / 161 / 163157 / 161 / 163
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.29 / 3.66 / 3.793.29 / 3.66 / 3.79
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2019, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 157 · Median 161 · 75th 163
LSAT: published 25th percentile 157, median 161, 75th percentile 163.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.29 · Median 3.66 · 75th 3.79
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.29, median 3.66, 75th percentile 3.79.

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 2019. 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 (2019)
Covers
Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
492
1L
196
2L
155
3L
141
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
178

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
4.5%
1L other attrition
1%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
14
1L transfers out
8
Transfer GPA median
3.25

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