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 — 2024-2025

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
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	$29,790	$3,839
Full-time · nonresident	$45,154	$3,839
Part-time · per credit (resident)	$1,845	$2,187

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$21,258
Living off campus$32,546
Living at home$14,482

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$29,790
Mandatory fees$3,839
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$32,546

PreLaw Advisor total$66,175

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 (2024–2025 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
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	1,303	1,023	280
Receiving grants	1,114	903	211
% receiving grants	85%	88%	75%
Less than half tuition	701	540	161
Half to full tuition	406	358	48
Full tuition	0	0	0
More than full tuition	6	4	2
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$12,000	$8,000
Median grant	Not applicable	$15,000	$11,250
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$20,000	$15,938

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
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 2023-20241 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2022-2023313 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-2022432 received · 64 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.