Winston Salem, North Carolina
Wake Forest University School of Law
- Accreditation
- ABA approved since 1936
- Institution type
- Private
- J.D. formats
- Full-time J.D.
- Median LSAT
- 166
- Median GPA
- 3.79
- Resident tuition
- $57,920
- First-year class
- 204
- Bar-required jobs
- 89.2%
- First-time bar passage
- 89.6%
J.D. program formats
- Full-time J.D.
- Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
- Part-time J.D.
- Not on the ABA Council’s part-time list.
- Distance-education J.D.
- Not on the ABA Council’s distance-education J.D. list.
Formats come from the ABA Council’s published lists, not from the school’s marketing. What each format means
Programs published by the school
Clinics and field placements
Supervised legal work with real clients or in real legal settings, for credit.
Clinics (7)
- Appellate Advocacy ClinicSchool page for Appellate Advocacy Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Environmental Law & Policy ClinicSchool page for Environmental Law & Policy Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Innocence & Justice ClinicSchool page for Innocence & Justice Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Intellectual Property Law ClinicSchool page for Intellectual Property Law Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Medical-Legal Partnership ClinicSchool page for Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Trade & Development ClinicSchool page for Trade & Development Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Veterans Legal ClinicSchool page for Veterans Legal Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Externships and field placements (1)
- DC Summer Judicial ExternshipSchool page for DC Summer Judicial Externship (opens in a new tab)
Advanced law degrees
Degrees for people who already hold a first degree in law, in the United States or abroad.
LL.M. programs (1)
- LL.M. programSchool page for LL.M. program (opens in a new tab)
S.J.D. and J.S.D. programs (1)
- S.J.D. / J.S.D. programSchool page for S.J.D. / J.S.D. program (opens in a new tab)
Curriculum & faculty (2025 ABA report)
Source
- Organization
- American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
- Document
- ABA Standard 509 compilation — Curricular Offerings (2025)
- Covers
- Report year 2025
- Retrieved
- Sep 23, 2026
- Status
- Verified · Sep 23, 2026
Course titles beyond 1L
143
Clinic positions available
218
129 filled
Field placements filled
69
Simulation course seats
565
Co-curricular offerings
29
Full-time faculty
48
104 total faculty
Clinic and simulation seat counts are only mapped from report layouts that define them unambiguously (2025 onward).
