Buffalo, New York

University at Buffalo School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1936
Institution type: Public
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2021-2022

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 (2021)
Covers: Report year 2021
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	$25,410	$3,078
Full-time · nonresident	$30,250	$3,078

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 (2021)
Covers: Report year 2021
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$19,674
Living off campus$19,674
Living at home$19,674

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$25,410
Mandatory fees$3,078
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$19,674

PreLaw Advisor total$48,162

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 (2021–2022 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2021)
Covers: Report year 2021
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	444	444	Not applicable
Receiving grants	416	410	Not applicable
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not applicable
Less than half tuition	287	282	Not applicable
Half to full tuition	124	123	Not applicable
Full tuition	1	1	Not applicable
More than full tuition	4	4	Not applicable
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$5,550	Not applicable
Median grant	Not applicable	$9,550	Not applicable
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$16,000	Not applicable

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 (2021)
Covers: Report year 2021
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2019-20200 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2018-20190 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2017-20180 received · 0 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.