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Berkeley, California

University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1923
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
170
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.92
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$62,532
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
374
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
96.8%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
94.8%
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 2024

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2024)
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Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications6,463Not applicable
Offers of admission1,118Not applicable
Acceptance rate17.3%Not applicable
First-year enrollment349349
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th167 / 170 / 172167 / 170 / 172
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.80 / 3.87 / 3.953.80 / 3.87 / 3.95
Students with GRE scores1212
Students with JD-Next scores00

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2024, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 167 · Median 170 · 75th 172
LSAT: published 25th percentile 167, median 170, 75th percentile 172.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.80 · Median 3.87 · 75th 3.95
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.80, median 3.87, 75th percentile 3.95.
GRE Verbal25th 162 · Median 165 · 75th 167
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 162, median 165, 75th percentile 167.
GRE Quantitative25th 154 · Median 159 · 75th 164
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 154, median 159, 75th percentile 164.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2024. 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 (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
1,008
1L
350
2L
370
3L
288
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
408

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
0%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
33
1L transfers out
5
Transfer GPA median
3.80

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