Birmingham, Alabama

Samford University Cumberland School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1949
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2017-2018

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
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	$38,448	Not reported
Full-time · nonresident	$38,448	Not reported
Part-time · resident	$22,716	Not reported
Part-time · nonresident	$22,716	Not reported

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living off campus$18,022

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$38,448
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$18,022

PreLaw Advisor total$56,470

Not included (not published): Mandatory fees.

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 (2017–2018 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
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	434	408	26
Receiving grants	348	346	2
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	245	243	2
Half to full tuition	84	84	0
Full tuition	15	15	0
More than full tuition	4	4	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$9,300	Not reported
Median grant	Not applicable	$13,900	Not reported
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$21,600	Not reported

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2016-2017138 received · 11 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2015-2016140 received · 7 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2014-201582 received · 12 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.