Queens, New York

St. John's University School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1937
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time and Part-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 164; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.81; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $75,170; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 241; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 90.4%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 87.6%; 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 — 2020-2021

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 (2020)
Covers: Report year 2020
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	$31,645	$1,152
Full-time · nonresident	$31,645	$1,152
Part-time · resident	$23,740	$1,152
Part-time · nonresident	$23,740	$1,152

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 (2020)
Covers: Report year 2020
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$26,503
Living off campus$28,233
Living at home$9,899

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$31,645
Mandatory fees$1,152
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$28,233

PreLaw Advisor total$61,030

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 (2020–2021 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2020)
Covers: Report year 2020
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	762	717	45
Receiving grants	510	486	24
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	113	106	7
Half to full tuition	143	137	6
Full tuition	248	238	10
More than full tuition	6	5	1
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$30,575	$20,875
Median grant	Not applicable	$58,075	$38,223
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$61,150	$45,870

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 (2020)
Covers: Report year 2020
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2019-2020204 received · 28 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2018-2019209 received · 65 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2017-2018231 received · 72 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.