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School of Law, Sullivan Hall, Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, Washington

Seattle University School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1994
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
159
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.60
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$2,061 / credit
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
209
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
75.5%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
79.5%
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 2020

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
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 applications1,408Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission840Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate59.7%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment21718235
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th151 / 155 / 157151 / 155 / 157150 / 153 / 157
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.14 / 3.39 / 3.573.16 / 3.39 / 3.563.06 / 3.37 / 3.62
Students with GRE scores0Not reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 151 · Median 155 · 75th 157
LSAT: published 25th percentile 151, median 155, 75th percentile 157.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.14 · Median 3.39 · 75th 3.57
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.14, median 3.39, 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 2020. 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 (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
667
1L
217
2L
214
3L
213
4L
23
J.D. degrees awarded
184

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
1.3%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.5%
Transfers in
5
1L transfers out
11
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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