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Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara University Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1937
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
159
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.50
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$2,260 / credit
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
256
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
75.3%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
82%
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 applications2,009Not applicable
Offers of admission1,160Not applicable
Acceptance rate57.7%Not applicable
First-year enrollment239239
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th152 / 155 / 157152 / 155 / 157
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.04 / 3.32 / 3.493.04 / 3.32 / 3.49
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 152 · Median 155 · 75th 157
LSAT: published 25th percentile 152, median 155, 75th percentile 157.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.04 · Median 3.32 · 75th 3.49
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.04, median 3.32, 75th percentile 3.49.

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
701
1L
283
2L
209
3L
209
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
217

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
1.6%
1L other attrition
4.5%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
6
1L transfers out
1
Transfer GPA median
3.09

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