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Boston, Massachusetts

Suffolk University Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1953
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
155
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.58
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$62,610
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
544
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
76.3%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
80.8%
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 2020

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2020)
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Report year 2020
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 applications1,975Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission1,370Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate69.4%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment40931396
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th149 / 154 / 158149 / 154 / 158148 / 154 / 160
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.17 / 3.44 / 3.663.18 / 3.45 / 3.663.14 / 3.41 / 3.59
Students with GRE scores15Not reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 149 · Median 154 · 75th 158
LSAT: published 25th percentile 149, median 154, 75th percentile 158.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.17 · Median 3.44 · 75th 3.66
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.17, median 3.44, 75th percentile 3.66.
GRE Verbal25th 150 · Median 153 · 75th 162
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 150, median 153, 75th percentile 162.
GRE Quantitative25th 146 · Median 151 · 75th 159
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 146, median 151, 75th percentile 159.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2020. 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 (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
1,130
1L
409
2L
306
3L
328
4L
87
J.D. degrees awarded
306

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
5.4%
1L other attrition
1.1%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
0
1L transfers out
17
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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