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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 2023

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2023)
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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 applications1,569Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission820Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate52.3%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment21315855
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th152 / 157 / 160152 / 156 / 159155 / 158 / 161
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.14 / 3.51 / 3.713.13 / 3.53 / 3.723.20 / 3.47 / 3.69
Students with GRE scores1037
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 152 · Median 157 · 75th 160
LSAT: published 25th percentile 152, median 157, 75th percentile 160.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.14 · Median 3.51 · 75th 3.71
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.14, median 3.51, 75th percentile 3.71.
GRE Verbal25th 149 · Median 155 · 75th 159
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 149, median 155, 75th percentile 159.
GRE Quantitative25th 144 · Median 147 · 75th 155
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 144, median 147, 75th percentile 155.

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
678
1L
220
2L
216
3L
221
4L
21
J.D. degrees awarded
200

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
1%
1L other attrition
5%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
3
1L transfers out
5
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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