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Carbondale, Illinois

Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1974
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
149
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.38
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$547 / credit
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
133
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
73%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
74.2%
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-time
Completed applications549Not applicable
Offers of admission332Not applicable
Acceptance rate60.5%Not applicable
First-year enrollment111111
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th146 / 149 / 152146 / 149 / 152
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.94 / 3.30 / 3.622.94 / 3.30 / 3.62
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2023, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 146 · Median 149 · 75th 152
LSAT: published 25th percentile 146, median 149, 75th percentile 152.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.94 · Median 3.30 · 75th 3.62
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.94, median 3.30, 75th percentile 3.62.

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
273
1L
109
2L
82
3L
82
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
77

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
2%
1L other attrition
1%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
0
1L transfers out
2
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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