Concord, New Hampshire

University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1974
Institution type: Public
J.D. formats: Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 155; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.50; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $42,000; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 248; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 57.8%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 73.8%; 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.

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	$40,000	$320
Full-time · nonresident	$48,000	$320
Part-time · per credit (resident)	$1,350	$320

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$17,582
Living off campus$17,582
Living at home$5,150

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$40,000
Mandatory fees$320
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$17,582

PreLaw Advisor total$57,902

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	596	359	237
Receiving grants	562	332	230
% receiving grants	94%	92%	97%
Less than half tuition	330	125	205
Half to full tuition	218	201	17
Full tuition	1	1	0
More than full tuition	12	4	8
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$7,500	$3,400
Median grant	Not applicable	$19,000	$7,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$30,000	$13,478

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.