Phoenix, Arizona

Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1969
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: 165; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.91; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $28,390; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 266; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 89%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 91.9%; 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	$29,037	$1,013
Full-time · nonresident	$51,359	$1,013

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

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Living on campus$30,090
Living off campus$30,090
Living at home$30,090

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$29,037
Mandatory fees$1,013
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$30,090

PreLaw Advisor total$60,140

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	793	Not applicable	Not applicable
Receiving grants	773	Not applicable	Not applicable
% receiving grants	97%	Not applicable	Not applicable
Less than half tuition	374	Not applicable	Not applicable
Half to full tuition	293	Not applicable	Not applicable
Full tuition	70	Not applicable	Not applicable
More than full tuition	36	Not applicable	Not applicable
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Median grant	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	Not applicable	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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports that it does not offer conditional scholarships.

Entering 2023-20240 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2022-20230 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-20220 received · 0 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.