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Champaign, Illinois

University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1923
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
166
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.81
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$36,500
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
188
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
92.2%
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.

Published class percentiles — fall 2025

LSAT25th 160 · Median 166 · 75th 168
LSAT: published 25th percentile 160, median 166, 75th percentile 168.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.55 · Median 3.81 · 75th 3.92
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.55, median 3.81, 75th percentile 3.92.

Published percentiles describe the class that enrolled; they are not an admissions prediction and PreLaw Advisor does not estimate anyone’s chances. Sign in to compare your own numbers privately.

Median LSAT

1662025

2017: 1612018: 1622019: 1622020: 1622021: 1642022: 1662023: 1652024: 1652025: 166
Acceptance rate

32.9%2025

2017: 46.4%2018: 33.0%2019: 36.7%2020: 42.5%2021: 29.8%2022: 34.7%2023: 43.7%2024: 46.8%2025: 32.9%
Applications

2,1532025

2017: 1,2752018: 1,3802019: 1,3042020: 1,1452021: 1,9262022: 2,0352023: 1,6872024: 1,5092025: 2,153
First-time bar passage

93.2%2026

2018: 88.9%2019: 84.8%2020: 92.5%2021: 89.7%2022: 84.4%2023: 90.5%2024: 72.5%2025: 93.6%2026: 93.2%

Each line fits its own range, so it shows direction over time and cannot be compared with another school’s. Admissions figures use the ABA report year (the fall entering class); bar passage uses the report year, which covers the previous year’s graduates.