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Davis, California

University of California, Davis School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1968
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
165
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.70
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$57,460
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
209
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
91.7%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
93.2%
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)
Covers
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 applications3,163Not applicable
Offers of admission917Not applicable
Acceptance rate29%Not applicable
First-year enrollment210210
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th159 / 165 / 167159 / 165 / 167
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.49 / 3.69 / 3.823.49 / 3.69 / 3.82
Students with GRE scores55
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 159 · Median 165 · 75th 167
LSAT: published 25th percentile 159, median 165, 75th percentile 167.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.49 · Median 3.69 · 75th 3.82
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.49, median 3.69, 75th percentile 3.82.

The school did not publish full GRE percentiles for this class, so a GRE comparison is not shown. PreLaw Advisor does not convert GRE scores into LSAT equivalents.

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
658
1L
210
2L
204
3L
244
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
178

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
2%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
4
1L transfers out
8
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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