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Salem, Oregon

Willamette University School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1938
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
154
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.48
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$56,600
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
139
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
73.3%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
64.6%
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-time
Completed applications648Not applicable
Offers of admission444Not applicable
Acceptance rate68.5%Not applicable
First-year enrollment126126
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th149 / 153 / 156149 / 153 / 156
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.77 / 3.16 / 3.512.77 / 3.16 / 3.51
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2019, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 149 · Median 153 · 75th 156
LSAT: published 25th percentile 149, median 153, 75th percentile 156.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.77 · Median 3.16 · 75th 3.51
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.77, median 3.16, 75th percentile 3.51.

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
347
1L
131
2L
107
3L
109
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
87

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
3.8%
1L other attrition
7.6%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.5%
Transfers in
1
1L transfers out
5
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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