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.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2023-2024

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Tuition and fees by program and residency
Program	Tuition	Fees
Full-time · resident	$65,020	$1,760
Full-time · nonresident	$65,020	$1,760
Part-time · resident	$48,760	$1,760
Part-time · nonresident	$48,760	$1,760

Living expenses (school estimates)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living off campus$25,774
Living at home$8,602

Annual estimates for single students, as reported by the school. Books, transportation and insurance are not itemized in ABA disclosures.

Estimated annual cost (calculation)

Tuition$65,020
Mandatory fees$1,760
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$25,774

PreLaw Advisor total$92,554

Sum of the school-published figures above. It is not the school’s official cost of attendance and assumes no scholarship.

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Grants & scholarships (2023–2024 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Grant recipients and amounts
Measure	All	Full-time	Part-time
Total students	822	667	155
Receiving grants	701	573	128
% receiving grants	85%	86%	83%
Less than half tuition	301	240	61
Half to full tuition	400	333	67
Full tuition	0	0	0
More than full tuition	0	0	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$20,000	$15,000
Median grant	Not applicable	$40,000	$25,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$60,810	$42,000

The ABA publishes grant percentiles by full-time/part-time status only. These describe past awards; they do not indicate what any applicant will receive.

Conditional scholarships

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports offering conditional scholarships (awards that can be reduced or eliminated, e.g. for grades).

Entering 2022-2023107 received · 32 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-2022145 received · 34 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2020-2021181 received · 26 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.