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 — 2025-2026

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 (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
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	$75,170	$1,572
Full-time · nonresident	$75,170	$1,572
Part-time · resident	$56,380	$1,572
Part-time · nonresident	$56,380	$1,572

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 (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$30,826
Living off campus$32,728
Living at home$12,858
Living on a military base$13,168

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$75,170
Mandatory fees$1,572
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$32,728

PreLaw Advisor total$109,470

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 (2025–2026 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
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	765	742	23
Receiving grants	643	624	19
% receiving grants	84%	84%	83%
Less than half tuition	260	249	11
Half to full tuition	383	375	8
Full tuition	0	0	0
More than full tuition	0	0	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$25,000	$11,250
Median grant	Not applicable	$60,000	$20,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$72,630	$45,000

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 (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports that it does not offer conditional scholarships.

Entering 2024-20250 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2023-20240 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2022-2023197 received · 15 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.