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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 2023

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2023)
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Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications930Not applicable
Offers of admission382Not applicable
Acceptance rate41.1%Not applicable
First-year enrollment141141
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th153 / 156 / 159153 / 156 / 159
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.48 / 3.72 / 3.893.48 / 3.72 / 3.89
Students with GRE scores1010
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2023, 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 3.48 · Median 3.72 · 75th 3.89
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.48, median 3.72, 75th percentile 3.89.
GRE Verbal25th 157 · Median 158 · 75th 162
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 157, median 158, 75th percentile 162.
GRE Quantitative25th 150 · Median 153 · 75th 156
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 150, median 153, 75th percentile 156.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2023. 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 (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
434
1L
141
2L
136
3L
157
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
157

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
1%
1L other attrition
1%
Upper-level academic attrition
1%
Transfers in
2
1L transfers out
4
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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