Indianpolis, Indiana

Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1944
Institution type: Public
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: 3.58; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $1,028 / credit; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 280; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 75.9%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 80.4%; 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	$28,631	Not reported
Full-time · nonresident	$48,711	Not reported
Part-time · resident	$19,160	Not reported
Part-time · nonresident	$32,338	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$18,967
Living off campus$18,967
Living at home$18,967

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$28,631
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$18,967

PreLaw Advisor total$47,598

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	804	564	240
Receiving grants	577	420	157
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	303	213	90
Half to full tuition	200	153	47
Full tuition	52	44	8
More than full tuition	22	10	12
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$8,017	$3,750
Median grant	Not applicable	$12,532	$9,257
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$20,335	$16,300

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 2016-2017149 received · 30 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2015-2016125 received · 9 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2014-2015140 received · 19 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.