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.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2025-2026

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 (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
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	$20,322	$3,700
Full-time · nonresident	$38,100	$3,700

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 (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$25,392
Living off campus$25,392
Living at home$16,846

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$20,322
Mandatory fees$3,700
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$25,392

PreLaw Advisor total$49,414

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 (2025–2026 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
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	628	628	Not applicable
Receiving grants	565	565	Not applicable
% receiving grants	90%	90%	Not applicable
Less than half tuition	381	381	Not applicable
Half to full tuition	160	160	Not applicable
Full tuition	7	7	Not applicable
More than full tuition	17	17	Not applicable
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$8,000	Not applicable
Median grant	Not applicable	$12,562	Not applicable
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$18,000	Not applicable

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 (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports that it does not offer conditional scholarships.

Entering 2024-20250 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2023-20240 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2022-20230 received · 0 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.