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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 2021

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2021)
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Report year 2021
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 applications2,602Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission1,468Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate56.4%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment44836979
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th150 / 154 / 158150 / 154 / 158149 / 152 / 157
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.25 / 3.48 / 3.693.26 / 3.48 / 3.683.21 / 3.47 / 3.75
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 150 · Median 154 · 75th 158
LSAT: published 25th percentile 150, median 154, 75th percentile 158.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.25 · Median 3.48 · 75th 3.69
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.25, median 3.48, 75th percentile 3.69.
GRE Verbal25th 157 · Median 160 · 75th 163
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 157, median 160, 75th percentile 163.
GRE Quantitative25th 153 · Median 155 · 75th 157
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 153, median 155, 75th percentile 157.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2021. 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 (2021)
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Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
1,176
1L
453
2L
319
3L
335
4L
69
J.D. degrees awarded
338

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
5.9%
1L other attrition
3.2%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.4%
Transfers in
1
1L transfers out
10
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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