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Las Vegas, Nevada

William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas

Accreditation
ABA approved since 2000
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
160
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.76
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$31,518
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
156
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
88.9%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
83.5%
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 applications898Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission279Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate31.1%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment12110219
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th154 / 159 / 161154 / 160 / 161152 / 155 / 157
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.28 / 3.67 / 3.803.30 / 3.67 / 3.813.19 / 3.49 / 3.75
Students with GRE scores0Not reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 154 · Median 159 · 75th 161
LSAT: published 25th percentile 154, median 159, 75th percentile 161.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.28 · Median 3.67 · 75th 3.80
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.28, median 3.67, 75th percentile 3.80.

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
445
1L
121
2L
142
3L
170
4L
12
J.D. degrees awarded
124

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
3%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
18
1L transfers out
5
Transfer GPA median
3.06

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