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Walter F. Mondale Hall 229 - 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota

University of Minnesota Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1923
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
171
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.88
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$51,440
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
228
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
91%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
95.3%
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 2019

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2019)
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Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications2,129Not applicable
Offers of admission833Not applicable
Acceptance rate39.1%Not applicable
First-year enrollment240240
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th161 / 165 / 166161 / 165 / 166
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.48 / 3.75 / 3.873.48 / 3.75 / 3.87
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2019, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 161 · Median 165 · 75th 166
LSAT: published 25th percentile 161, median 165, 75th percentile 166.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.48 · Median 3.75 · 75th 3.87
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.48, median 3.75, 75th percentile 3.87.

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 2019. 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 (2019)
Covers
Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
667
1L
240
2L
225
3L
202
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
158

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0.4%
1L other attrition
1.8%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.3%
Transfers in
4
1L transfers out
4
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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