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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 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 applications1,843Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission840Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate45.6%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment23820632
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th155 / 160 / 163155 / 160 / 162155 / 160 / 164
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.40 / 3.66 / 3.793.50 / 3.69 / 3.812.74 / 3.25 / 3.66
Students with GRE scores880
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 155 · Median 160 · 75th 163
LSAT: published 25th percentile 155, median 160, 75th percentile 163.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.40 · Median 3.66 · 75th 3.79
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.40, median 3.66, 75th percentile 3.79.

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
811
1L
241
2L
213
3L
326
4L
31
J.D. degrees awarded
241

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
4%
1L other attrition
3%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
8
1L transfers out
4
Transfer GPA median
3.10

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