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Wilmington, Delaware

Widener University Delaware Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1975
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
3.33
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$1,950 / credit
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
277
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
83%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
75.9%
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 2019

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2019)
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Report year 2019
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 applications1,019Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission652Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate64%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment23719641
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th147 / 149 / 151147 / 149 / 151146 / 148 / 150
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.90 / 3.21 / 3.462.88 / 3.21 / 3.452.94 / 3.20 / 3.53
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 147 · Median 149 · 75th 151
LSAT: published 25th percentile 147, median 149, 75th percentile 151.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.90 · Median 3.21 · 75th 3.46
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.90, median 3.21, 75th percentile 3.46.

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 2019. 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 (2019)
Covers
Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
599
1L
235
2L
173
3L
156
4L
35
J.D. degrees awarded
104

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
10.8%
1L other attrition
7.5%
Upper-level academic attrition
2%
Transfers in
0
1L transfers out
13
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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