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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.

J.D. program formats

Full-time J.D.
Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
Part-time J.D.
Offered. The school is on the ABA Council’s list of approved part-time programs.
Distance-education J.D.
Not on the ABA Council’s distance-education J.D. list.

Formats come from the ABA Council’s published lists, not from the school’s marketing. What each format means

Programs published by the school

Clinics and field placements

Supervised legal work with real clients or in real legal settings, for credit.

Centers and institutes

Research and program centers that organize a school's teaching, scholarship and events in a field.

5 programs read from Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s own website and reviewed before publication, most recently verified Sep 2026. The list covers structured academic offerings, not student organizations, and may not be complete.

Curriculum & faculty (2025 ABA report)

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — Curricular Offerings (2025)
Covers
Report year 2025
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Course titles beyond 1L
113
Clinic positions available
198
50 filled
Field placements filled
192
Simulation course seats
0
Co-curricular offerings
0
Full-time faculty
26
78 total faculty

Clinic and simulation seat counts are only mapped from report layouts that define them unambiguously (2025 onward).