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San Diego, California

University of San Diego, School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1961
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
163
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.84
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$66,950
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
240
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
88.6%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
86.7%
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 2022

First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureFull-timePart-time
Completed applicationsNot applicableNot applicable
Offers of admissionNot applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rateNot applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment24212
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th157 / 161 / 163157 / 160 / 167
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.47 / 3.74 / 3.863.01 / 3.43 / 3.76
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSATNot published
LSAT: the school did not publish all three percentiles for this class.
Undergraduate GPANot published
Undergraduate GPA: the school did not publish all three percentiles for this class.

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 2022. 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 (2022)
Covers
Report year 2022
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
754
1L
254
2L
250
3L
240
4L
10
J.D. degrees awarded
245

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
2.7%
1L other attrition
3.1%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
10
1L transfers out
8
Transfer GPA median
3.35

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