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Lansing, Michigan

Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1975
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
147
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.09
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$1,580 / credit
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
237
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
58.7%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
51.5%
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 2024

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
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 applications1,162Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission553Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate47.6%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment1396079
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th146 / 147 / 151146 / 147 / 151146 / 148 / 151
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.86 / 3.15 / 3.492.76 / 3.03 / 3.342.97 / 3.23 / 3.54
Students with GRE scores000
Students with JD-Next scores000

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 146 · Median 147 · 75th 151
LSAT: published 25th percentile 146, median 147, 75th percentile 151.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.86 · Median 3.15 · 75th 3.49
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.86, median 3.15, 75th percentile 3.49.

The school did not publish full GRE percentiles for this class, so a GRE comparison is not shown. PreLaw Advisor does not convert GRE scores into LSAT equivalents.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2024. 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 (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
420
1L
172
2L
124
3L
124
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
120

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
9%
1L other attrition
2%
Upper-level academic attrition
3%
Transfers in
1
1L transfers out
1
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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