Malibu, California

Rick J. Caruso School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1972
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2017-2018

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
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	$54,260	Not reported
Full-time · nonresident	$54,260	Not reported

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$27,000
Living off campus$27,000
Living at home$27,000

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$54,260
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$27,000

PreLaw Advisor total$81,260

Not included (not published): Mandatory fees.

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 (2017–2018 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
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	598	585	13
Receiving grants	411	411	0
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	195	195	0
Half to full tuition	185	185	0
Full tuition	1	1	0
More than full tuition	30	30	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$15,000	Not reported
Median grant	Not applicable	$27,000	Not reported
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$40,000	Not reported

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2016-2017125 received · 26 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2015-201684 received · 22 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2014-2015136 received · 38 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.