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 — 2023-2024

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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	$70,170	$1,494
Full-time · nonresident	$70,170	$1,494
Part-time · resident	$52,630	$1,494
Part-time · nonresident	$52,630	$1,494

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$31,662
Living off campus$31,234
Living at home$13,111

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$70,170
Mandatory fees$1,494
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$31,234

PreLaw Advisor total$102,898

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 (2023–2024 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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	737	25
Receiving grants	580	564	16
% receiving grants	76%	77%	64%
Less than half tuition	173	168	5
Half to full tuition	407	396	11
Full tuition	0	0	0
More than full tuition	0	0	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$33,675	$24,000
Median grant	Not applicable	$67,800	$35,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$67,800	$50,850

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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 2022-2023197 received · 12 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-2022212 received · 17 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2020-2021198 received · 27 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.