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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 2024

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
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 applications823Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission399Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate48.5%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment1369541
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th149 / 151 / 154149 / 152 / 155150 / 151 / 154
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.97 / 3.26 / 3.563.07 / 3.34 / 3.582.69 / 3.07 / 3.39
Students with GRE scores220
Students with JD-Next scores000

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 149 · Median 151 · 75th 154
LSAT: published 25th percentile 149, median 151, 75th percentile 154.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.97 · Median 3.26 · 75th 3.56
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.97, median 3.26, 75th percentile 3.56.

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 2024. 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 (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
353
1L
131
2L
112
3L
93
4L
17
J.D. degrees awarded
76

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
13%
1L other attrition
2%
Upper-level academic attrition
1%
Transfers in
4
1L transfers out
5
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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