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Los Angeles, California

Southwestern Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1970
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
157
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.51
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$63,160
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
459
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
78.6%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
72.1%
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 2019

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2019)
Covers
Report year 2019
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 applications1,900Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission910Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate47.9%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment34128952
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th151 / 153 / 155151 / 153 / 155151 / 153 / 155
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.03 / 3.30 / 3.563.05 / 3.31 / 3.572.81 / 3.09 / 3.43
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 151 · Median 153 · 75th 155
LSAT: published 25th percentile 151, median 153, 75th percentile 155.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.03 · Median 3.30 · 75th 3.56
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.03, median 3.30, 75th percentile 3.56.

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 2019. 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 (2019)
Covers
Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
805
1L
347
2L
199
3L
215
4L
44
J.D. degrees awarded
199

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
13.1%
1L other attrition
0.7%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.7%
Transfers in
8
1L transfers out
11
Transfer GPA median
3.11

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