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.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2024-2025

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Tuition and fees by program and residency
Program	Tuition	Fees
Full-time · resident	$29,960	$1,735
Full-time · nonresident	$43,764	$1,735
Part-time · per credit (resident)	$1,070	$1,574

Living expenses (school estimates)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$20,365
Living off campus$31,201
Living at home$22,895

Annual estimates for single students, as reported by the school. Books, transportation and insurance are not itemized in ABA disclosures.

Estimated annual cost (calculation)

Tuition$29,960
Mandatory fees$1,735
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$31,201

PreLaw Advisor total$62,896

Sum of the school-published figures above. It is not the school’s official cost of attendance and assumes no scholarship.

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Grants & scholarships (2024–2025 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Grant recipients and amounts
Measure	All	Full-time	Part-time
Total students	438	378	60
Receiving grants	317	295	22
% receiving grants	72%	78%	37%
Less than half tuition	147	130	17
Half to full tuition	93	91	2
Full tuition	41	40	1
More than full tuition	35	34	1
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$18,666	$10,500
Median grant	Not applicable	$28,000	$14,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$42,000	$20,750

The ABA publishes grant percentiles by full-time/part-time status only. These describe past awards; they do not indicate what any applicant will receive.

Conditional scholarships

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports that it does not offer conditional scholarships.

Entering 2023-20240 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2022-20230 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-20220 received · 0 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.