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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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2024-2025

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 (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Tuition and fees by program and residency
ProgramTuitionFees
Full-time · resident$60,728$0
Full-time · nonresident$60,728$0
Part-time · resident$40,502$0
Part-time · nonresident$40,502$0

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 (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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  • Living on campus$34,615
  • Living off campus$36,560
  • Living at home$21,305

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$60,728
  • Mandatory fees$0
  • Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$36,560
PreLaw Advisor total$97,288

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 (2024–2025 students)

Not published

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 (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
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 2023-2024222 received · 114 reduced or eliminated
  • Entering 2022-2023194 received · 100 reduced or eliminated
  • Entering 2021-2022222 received · 103 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.