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Los Angeles, California

University of Southern California Gould School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1924
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
169
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.91
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$84,034
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
228
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
94.3%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
94.1%
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 2017

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2017)
Covers
Report year 2017
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll students
Completed applications4,823
Offers of admission1,178
Acceptance rate24.4%
First-year enrollment187
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th162 / 165 / 166
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.58 / 3.76 / 3.88
Students with GRE scoresNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2017, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 162 · Median 165 · 75th 166
LSAT: published 25th percentile 162, median 165, 75th percentile 166.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.58 · Median 3.76 · 75th 3.88
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.58, median 3.76, 75th percentile 3.88.

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 2017. 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 (2017)
Covers
Report year 2017
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
624
1L
185
2L
225
3L
214
4L
Not reported
J.D. degrees awarded
209

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
Not reported
1L other attrition
Not reported
Upper-level academic attrition
Not reported
Transfers in
2
1L transfers out
0
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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