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.

J.D. program formats

Full-time J.D.: Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
Part-time J.D.: Offered. The school is on the ABA Council’s list of approved part-time programs.
Distance-education J.D.: Offered. The school is 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

Certificates

Credentials a school awards for completing a defined set of courses, either alongside the J.D. or as a stand-alone program.

Certificate in Corporate & Business LawSchool page for Certificate in Corporate & Business Law (opens in a new tab)

Clinics and field placements

Supervised legal work with real clients or in real legal settings, for credit.

Child and Family Advocacy ClinicSchool page for Child and Family Advocacy Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Community and Transactional Lawyering ClinicSchool page for Community and Transactional Lawyering Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Constitutional Rights ClinicSchool page for Constitutional Rights Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Criminal Defense & Advocacy ClinicSchool page for Criminal Defense & Advocacy Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Criminal and Youth Justice ClinicSchool page for Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Domestic Violence ClinicSchool page for Domestic Violence Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Economic Justice and Public Benefits ClinicSchool page for Economic Justice and Public Benefits Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Education & Health Law ClinicSchool page for Education & Health Law Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Entrepreneurship ClinicSchool page for Entrepreneurship Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Immigrant Justice ClinicSchool page for Immigrant Justice Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Immigrant Rights ClinicSchool page for Immigrant Rights Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Intellectual Property ClinicSchool page for Intellectual Property Clinic (opens in a new tab)
International Human Rights ClinicSchool page for International Human Rights Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Legislative & Policy Advocacy ClinicSchool page for Legislative & Policy Advocacy Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Mediation ClinicSchool page for Mediation Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Medical-Legal Partnership ClinicSchool page for Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Women’s Rights and Gender Justice ClinicSchool page for Ruth Bader Ginsburg Women’s Rights and Gender Justice Clinic (opens in a new tab)
The Housing Advocacy ClinicSchool page for The Housing Advocacy Clinic (opens in a new tab)

Centers and institutes

Research and program centers that organize a school's teaching, scholarship and events in a field.

Center for Criminal Justice, Youth Rights, and RaceSchool page for Center for Criminal Justice, Youth Rights, and Race (opens in a new tab)

Journals and advocacy programs

Student-edited publications and competitive advocacy programs.

Rutgers Advocacy CenterSchool page for Rutgers Advocacy Center (opens in a new tab)

21 programs read from Rutgers Law School’s own website and reviewed before publication, most recently verified Sep 2026. The list covers structured academic offerings, not student organizations, and may not be complete.

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

Open official source

Course titles beyond 1L

236

Clinic positions available

373

348 filled

Field placements filled

119

Simulation course seats

1,931

Co-curricular offerings

1,034

Full-time faculty

167

282 total faculty

Clinic and simulation seat counts are only mapped from report layouts that define them unambiguously (2025 onward).