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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Widener University Commonwealth Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1988
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
150
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.33
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$1,875 / credit
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
159
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
77.1%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
68.9%
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 2022

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2022)
Covers
Report year 2022
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 applications668Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission402Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate60.2%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment14211824
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th146 / 148 / 152146 / 148 / 150147 / 149 / 155
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.95 / 3.30 / 3.602.95 / 3.32 / 3.602.91 / 3.25 / 3.59
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 146 · Median 148 · 75th 152
LSAT: published 25th percentile 146, median 148, 75th percentile 152.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.95 · Median 3.30 · 75th 3.60
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.95, median 3.30, 75th percentile 3.60.

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 2022. 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 (2022)
Covers
Report year 2022
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
346
1L
142
2L
99
3L
93
4L
12
J.D. degrees awarded
98

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
14.2%
1L other attrition
1.6%
Upper-level academic attrition
2.8%
Transfers in
1
1L transfers out
10
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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