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.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2020-2021

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 (2020)
Covers: Report year 2020
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	$12,902	$3,091
Full-time · nonresident	$19,557	$3,091
Part-time · per credit (resident)	$1,076	$1,788

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 (2020)
Covers: Report year 2020
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$20,362
Living off campus$28,688
Living at home$13,898

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$12,902
Mandatory fees$3,091
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$28,688

PreLaw Advisor total$44,681

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 (2020–2021 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2020)
Covers: Report year 2020
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	1,206	973	233
Receiving grants	1,035	959	76
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	433	420	13
Half to full tuition	482	458	24
Full tuition	23	23	0
More than full tuition	97	58	39
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$8,000	$6,750
Median grant	Not applicable	$14,500	$12,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$19,706	$18,000

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 (2020)
Covers: Report year 2020
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2019-2020344 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2018-2019286 received · 39 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2017-2018304 received · 45 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.