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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.
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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 — 2021-2022

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 (2021)
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Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Tuition and fees by program and residency
ProgramTuitionFees
Full-time · resident$29,824$1,161
Full-time · nonresident$49,888$1,161
Part-time · resident$19,572$1,116
Part-time · nonresident$32,740$1,116
Full-time · per credit (resident)$932$1,161
Part-time · per credit (resident)$932$1,116

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 (2021)
Covers
Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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  • Living on campus$19,016
  • Living off campus$19,016
  • Living at home$19,016

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$29,824
  • Mandatory fees$1,161
  • Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$19,016
PreLaw Advisor total$50,001

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 (2021–2022 students)

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2021)
Covers
Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Grant recipients and amounts
MeasureAllFull-timePart-time
Total students785580205
Receiving grants597433164
% receiving grantsNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Less than half tuition345244101
Half to full tuition22517253
Full tuition532
More than full tuition22148
25th percentile grantNot applicable$5,000$3,000
Median grantNot applicable$13,000$7,000
75th percentile grantNot applicable$27,420$13,875

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 (2021)
Covers
Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

  • Entering 2019-2020192 received · 39 reduced or eliminated
  • Entering 2018-2019147 received · 24 reduced or eliminated
  • Entering 2017-2018165 received · 45 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.