Bristol, Rhode Island
Roger Williams University School of Law
- Accreditation
- ABA approved since 1995
- Institution type
- Private
- J.D. formats
- Full-time J.D.
- Median LSAT
- 150
- Median GPA
- 3.43
- Resident tuition
- $47,400
- First-year class
- 189
- Bar-required jobs
- 69.2%
- First-time bar passage
- 65.2%
J.D. program formats
- Full-time J.D.
- Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
- Part-time J.D.
- Not on the ABA Council’s part-time list.
- Distance-education J.D.
- Not on the ABA Council’s distance-education J.D. list.
Formats come from the ABA Council’s published lists, not from the school’s marketing. What each format means
Programs published by the school
Clinics and field placements
Supervised legal work with real clients or in real legal settings, for credit.
Clinics (10)
- Business Law ClinicSchool page for Business Law Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Business Start-Up ClinicSchool page for Business Start-Up Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Coastal Resilience Law and Policy ClinicSchool page for Coastal Resilience Law and Policy Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Criminal Defense ClinicSchool page for Criminal Defense Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Housing Law ClinicSchool page for Housing Law Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Housing Policy ClinicSchool page for Housing Policy Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Immigration ClinicSchool page for Immigration Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Prisoners' Rights ClinicSchool page for Prisoners' Rights Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Veterans ClinicSchool page for Veterans Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Veterans Disability Appeals Field ClinicSchool page for Veterans Disability Appeals Field Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Externships and field placements (9)
- Corporate Counsel Clinical ExternshipSchool page for Corporate Counsel Clinical Externship (opens in a new tab)
- Environmental & Land Use Law Clinical ExternshipSchool page for Environmental & Land Use Law Clinical Externship (opens in a new tab)
- Government Clinical ExternshipSchool page for Government Clinical Externship (opens in a new tab)
- Judicial Clinical ExternshipSchool page for Judicial Clinical Externship (opens in a new tab)
- Prosecution Clinical ExternshipSchool page for Prosecution Clinical Externship (opens in a new tab)
- Public Interest Clinical ExternshipSchool page for Public Interest Clinical Externship (opens in a new tab)
- Semester-In-Practice ProgramSchool page for Semester-In-Practice Program (opens in a new tab)
- Summer Clinical ExternshipSchool page for Summer Clinical Externship (opens in a new tab)
- Washington D.C. Semester-In-Practice ProgramSchool page for Washington D.C. Semester-In-Practice Program (opens in a new tab)
Centers and institutes
Research and program centers that organize a school's teaching, scholarship and events in a field.
- Feinstein Center for Pro Bono & Experiential EducationSchool page for Feinstein Center for Pro Bono & Experiential Education (opens in a new tab)
- Institute for Race and the LawSchool page for Institute for Race and the Law (opens in a new tab)
- Marine Affairs InstituteSchool page for Marine Affairs Institute (opens in a new tab)
Master's degrees for non-lawyers
Graduate degrees in legal studies for professionals who work with the law but do not intend to practise. They do not qualify graduates to sit for the bar.
Curriculum & faculty (2025 ABA report)
Source
- Organization
- American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
- Document
- ABA Standard 509 compilation — Curricular Offerings (2025)
- Covers
- Report year 2025
- Retrieved
- Sep 23, 2026
- Status
- Verified · Sep 23, 2026
Course titles beyond 1L
136
Clinic positions available
100
76 filled
Field placements filled
116
Simulation course seats
563
Co-curricular offerings
11
Full-time faculty
35
100 total faculty
Clinic and simulation seat counts are only mapped from report layouts that define them unambiguously (2025 onward).
