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Birmingham, Alabama

Samford University Cumberland School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1949
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
156
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.63
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$46,334
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
170
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
80.6%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
90.4%
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 2018

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2018)
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Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications607Not applicable
Offers of admission450Not applicable
Acceptance rate74.1%Not applicable
First-year enrollment144144
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th149 / 151 / 154149 / 151 / 154
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.10 / 3.31 / 3.573.10 / 3.31 / 3.57
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2018, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 149 · Median 151 · 75th 154
LSAT: published 25th percentile 149, median 151, 75th percentile 154.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.10 · Median 3.31 · 75th 3.57
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.10, median 3.31, 75th percentile 3.57.

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 2018. 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 (2018)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
425
1L
145
2L
140
3L
140
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
141

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
3.2%
1L other attrition
1.3%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
3
1L transfers out
7
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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