Carbondale, Illinois

Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1974
Institution type: Public
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2022-2023

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 (2022)
Covers: Report year 2022
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	$16,957	$4,598
Full-time · nonresident	$16,957	$4,598
Full-time · per credit (resident)	$547	$4,598

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 (2022)
Covers: Report year 2022
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$18,350
Living off campus$18,350
Living at home$18,350

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$16,957
Mandatory fees$4,598
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$18,350

PreLaw Advisor total$39,905

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 (2022–2023 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2022)
Covers: Report year 2022
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	237	237	Not applicable
Receiving grants	196	196	Not applicable
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not applicable
Less than half tuition	66	66	Not applicable
Half to full tuition	92	92	Not applicable
Full tuition	36	36	Not applicable
More than full tuition	2	2	Not applicable
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$6,000	Not applicable
Median grant	Not applicable	$11,000	Not applicable
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$13,128	Not applicable

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 (2022)
Covers: Report year 2022
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2019-20200 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2018-20190 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2017-20180 received · 0 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.