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Newark, New Jersey

Seton Hall University School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1951
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
161
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.71
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$69,660
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
302
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
87%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
87.1%
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 2021

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2021)
Covers
Report year 2021
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 applications2,256Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission1,030Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate45.7%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment35430747
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th157 / 160 / 162157 / 160 / 162155 / 159 / 163
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.31 / 3.58 / 3.753.32 / 3.58 / 3.743.19 / 3.55 / 3.77
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 157 · Median 160 · 75th 162
LSAT: published 25th percentile 157, median 160, 75th percentile 162.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.31 · Median 3.58 · 75th 3.75
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.31, median 3.58, 75th percentile 3.75.

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 2021. 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 (2021)
Covers
Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
835
1L
357
2L
229
3L
213
4L
36
J.D. degrees awarded
221

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
6.6%
1L other attrition
1.9%
Upper-level academic attrition
1.1%
Transfers in
6
1L transfers out
4
Transfer GPA median
3.09

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