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Syracuse, New York

Syracuse University College of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1923
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
158
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.60
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$64,650
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
271
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
71.2%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
84.8%
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-time
Completed applications2,657Not applicable
Offers of admission870Not applicable
Acceptance rate32.7%Not applicable
First-year enrollment236236
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th154 / 157 / 160154 / 157 / 160
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.19 / 3.51 / 3.723.19 / 3.51 / 3.72
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2021, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 154 · Median 157 · 75th 160
LSAT: published 25th percentile 154, median 157, 75th percentile 160.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.19 · Median 3.51 · 75th 3.72
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.19, median 3.51, 75th percentile 3.72.
GRE Verbal25th 157 · Median 160 · 75th 163
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 157, median 160, 75th percentile 163.
GRE Quantitative25th 150 · Median 155 · 75th 158
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 150, median 155, 75th percentile 158.

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)
Covers
Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
676
1L
308
2L
169
3L
199
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
164

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
3.3%
1L other attrition
5.9%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.8%
Transfers in
5
1L transfers out
6
Transfer GPA median
3.35

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