Irvine, California

University of California, Irvine School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 2011
Institution type: Public
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 169; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.80; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $59,080; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 189; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 92.9%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 89.9%; 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 — 2023-2024

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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	$53,934	$2,091
Full-time · nonresident	$66,179	$2,091

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$25,405
Living off campus$37,133
Living at home$24,291

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$53,934
Mandatory fees$2,091
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$37,133

PreLaw Advisor total$93,158

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 (2023–2024 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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	467	467	Not applicable
Receiving grants	449	449	Not applicable
% receiving grants	96%	96%	Not applicable
Less than half tuition	324	324	Not applicable
Half to full tuition	125	125	Not applicable
Full tuition	0	0	Not applicable
More than full tuition	0	0	Not applicable
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$20,000	Not applicable
Median grant	Not applicable	$27,500	Not applicable
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$35,000	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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports that it does not offer conditional scholarships.

Entering 2022-20230 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-20220 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2020-20210 received · 0 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.