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Newark, New Jersey

Rutgers Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1941
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
158
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.66
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$31,577
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
489
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
85.3%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
79.1%
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)
Covers
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-timePart-time
Completed applications2,769Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission1,219Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate44%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment40434163
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th153 / 156 / 158154 / 156 / 159152 / 154 / 156
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.13 / 3.41 / 3.633.13 / 3.41 / 3.613.07 / 3.38 / 3.72
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 153 · Median 156 · 75th 158
LSAT: published 25th percentile 153, median 156, 75th percentile 158.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.13 · Median 3.41 · 75th 3.63
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.13, median 3.41, 75th percentile 3.63.

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
1,206
1L
414
2L
398
3L
339
4L
55
J.D. degrees awarded
318

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0.2%
1L other attrition
1.7%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.1%
Transfers in
21
1L transfers out
12
Transfer GPA median
3.12

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