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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 2024

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
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 applications2,302Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission986Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate42.8%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment28824939
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th157 / 160 / 162157 / 160 / 162154 / 156 / 161
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.47 / 3.69 / 3.863.51 / 3.70 / 3.863.19 / 3.47 / 3.77
Students with GRE scores523
Students with JD-Next scores000

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 157 · Median 160 · 75th 162
LSAT: published 25th percentile 157, median 160, 75th percentile 162.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.47 · Median 3.69 · 75th 3.86
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.47, median 3.69, 75th percentile 3.86.

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 2024. 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 (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
761
1L
289
2L
228
3L
205
4L
39
J.D. degrees awarded
314

Attrition & transfers

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

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