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Columbia, South Carolina

University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1925
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
162
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.67
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$20,322
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
221
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
88.9%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
90.1%
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

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2022)
Covers
Report year 2022
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications1,754Not applicable
Offers of admission660Not applicable
Acceptance rate37.6%Not applicable
First-year enrollment206206
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th156 / 159 / 161156 / 159 / 161
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.35 / 3.61 / 3.833.35 / 3.61 / 3.83
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2022, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 156 · Median 159 · 75th 161
LSAT: published 25th percentile 156, median 159, 75th percentile 161.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.35 · Median 3.61 · 75th 3.83
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.35, median 3.61, 75th percentile 3.83.

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
629
1L
207
2L
208
3L
214
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
199

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0.5%
1L other attrition
6.1%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.2%
Transfers in
1
1L transfers out
4
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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