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Chicago, Illinois

University of Illinois Chicago School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1951
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
153
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.40
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$1,248 / credit
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
379
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
71.2%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
68.8%
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 2020

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2020)
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Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-timePart-time
Completed applications1,679Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission956Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate56.9%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment33727859
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th148 / 151 / 153148 / 151 / 153148 / 150 / 153
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.98 / 3.27 / 3.523.02 / 3.29 / 3.522.85 / 3.15 / 3.37
Students with GRE scores17Not reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 148 · Median 151 · 75th 153
LSAT: published 25th percentile 148, median 151, 75th percentile 153.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.98 · Median 3.27 · 75th 3.52
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.98, median 3.27, 75th percentile 3.52.
GRE Verbal25th 152 · Median 156 · 75th 160
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 152, median 156, 75th percentile 160.
GRE Quantitative25th 149 · Median 153 · 75th 156
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 149, median 153, 75th percentile 156.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2020. 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 (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
985
1L
372
2L
328
3L
234
4L
51
J.D. degrees awarded
237

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
4.3%
1L other attrition
0.9%
Upper-level academic attrition
1.6%
Transfers in
4
1L transfers out
2
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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