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 — 2023-2024

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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	$28,370	$3,692
Full-time · nonresident	$43,003	$3,692
Part-time · per credit (resident)	$1,160	$2,013

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$20,849
Living off campus$31,914
Living at home$14,207

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$28,370
Mandatory fees$3,692
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$31,914

PreLaw Advisor total$63,976

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 (2023–2024 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 28, 2026

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Grant recipients and amounts
Measure	All	Full-time	Part-time
Total students	1,249	1,037	Not applicable
Receiving grants	1,024	802	Not applicable
% receiving grants	82%	77%	Not applicable
Less than half tuition	598	454	Not applicable
Half to full tuition	443	366	Not applicable
Full tuition	0	0	Not applicable
More than full tuition	14	13	Not applicable
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$12,000	Not applicable
Median grant	Not applicable	$16,000	Not applicable
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$20,000	Not applicable

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports offering conditional scholarships (awards that can be reduced or eliminated, e.g. for grades).

Entering 2022-2023313 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-2022432 received · 64 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2020-2021318 received · 43 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.