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Irvine, California

Western State College of Law at Westcliff University

Accreditation
ABA approved since 2005
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
152
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.36
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$54,840
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
117
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
79.6%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
81.1%
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 2020

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-timePart-time
Completed applications441Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission189Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate42.9%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment867016
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th148 / 150 / 152148 / 149 / 152149 / 150 / 154
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.94 / 3.14 / 3.412.94 / 3.15 / 3.402.84 / 3.02 / 3.43
Students with GRE scores0Not reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 148 · Median 150 · 75th 152
LSAT: published 25th percentile 148, median 150, 75th percentile 152.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.94 · Median 3.14 · 75th 3.41
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.94, median 3.14, 75th percentile 3.41.

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 2020. 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 (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
229
1L
86
2L
21
3L
92
4L
30
J.D. degrees awarded
87

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
36.4%
Upper-level academic attrition
1%
Transfers in
3
1L transfers out
0
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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