Little Rock, Arkansas

UALR William H. Bowen School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1969
Institution type: Public
J.D. formats: Full-time and Part-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 153; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.41; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $13,770; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 154; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 75%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 78.9%; 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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2025-2026

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Tuition and fees by program and residency
Program	Tuition	Fees
Full-time · resident	$13,770	$3,704
Part-time · resident	$11,016	$3,324
Full-time · per credit (resident)	$459	$3,704
Part-time · per credit (resident)	$459	$3,324

Living expenses (school estimates)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$21,303
Living off campus$25,459
Living at home$12,969
Living on a military base$15,082

Annual estimates for single students, as reported by the school. Books, transportation and insurance are not itemized in ABA disclosures.

Estimated annual cost (calculation)

Tuition$13,770
Mandatory fees$3,704
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$25,459

PreLaw Advisor total$42,933

Sum of the school-published figures above. It is not the school’s official cost of attendance and assumes no scholarship.

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Grants & scholarships (2025–2026 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Grant recipients and amounts
Measure	All	Full-time	Part-time
Total students	420	328	92
Receiving grants	251	196	55
% receiving grants	60%	60%	60%
Less than half tuition	117	90	27
Half to full tuition	97	78	19
Full tuition	24	18	6
More than full tuition	13	10	3
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$3,443	$2,639
Median grant	Not applicable	$7,461	$5,295
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$13,770	$7,891

The ABA publishes grant percentiles by full-time/part-time status only. These describe past awards; they do not indicate what any applicant will receive.

Conditional scholarships

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports offering conditional scholarships (awards that can be reduced or eliminated, e.g. for grades).

Entering 2024-202586 received · 30 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2023-202487 received · 50 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2022-202374 received · 34 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.