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Buffalo, New York

University at Buffalo School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1936
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
157
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.71
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$26,430
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
167
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
91.2%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
88.5%
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 2022

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2022)
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Report year 2022
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications872Not applicable
Offers of admission384Not applicable
Acceptance rate44%Not applicable
First-year enrollment141141
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th153 / 156 / 159153 / 156 / 159
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.41 / 3.61 / 3.793.41 / 3.61 / 3.79
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2022, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 153 · Median 156 · 75th 159
LSAT: published 25th percentile 153, median 156, 75th percentile 159.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.41 · Median 3.61 · 75th 3.79
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.41, median 3.61, 75th percentile 3.79.
GRE Verbal25th 149 · Median 157 · 75th 161
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 149, median 157, 75th percentile 161.
GRE Quantitative25th 145 · Median 154 · 75th 156
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 145, median 154, 75th percentile 156.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2022. 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 (2022)
Covers
Report year 2022
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
462
1L
141
2L
163
3L
158
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
133

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
3.8%
1L other attrition
1.3%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.3%
Transfers in
5
1L transfers out
4
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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