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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 2023

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-timePart-time
Completed applications1,913Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission1,003Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate52.4%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment24421034
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th155 / 159 / 162156 / 159 / 162154 / 157 / 162
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.31 / 3.55 / 3.723.35 / 3.56 / 3.722.98 / 3.34 / 3.63
Students with GRE scores523
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 155 · Median 159 · 75th 162
LSAT: published 25th percentile 155, median 159, 75th percentile 162.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.31 · Median 3.55 · 75th 3.72
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.31, median 3.55, 75th percentile 3.72.

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 2023. 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 (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
662
1L
260
2L
233
3L
148
4L
21
J.D. degrees awarded
226

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
2%
1L other attrition
0%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
3
1L transfers out
4
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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