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Honolulu, Hawaii

William S. Richardson School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1974
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
158
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.62
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$23,304
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
140
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
75.5%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
77.1%
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.

Latest verified year

First-year class — fall 2025

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2025)
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Report year 2025
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 applications1,654Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission434Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate26.2%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment1408753
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th155 / 158 / 162154 / 157 / 160158 / 160 / 163
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.40 / 3.62 / 3.803.36 / 3.60 / 3.813.49 / 3.65 / 3.76
Students with GRE scores15312
Students with JD-Next scores000

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 155 · Median 158 · 75th 162
LSAT: published 25th percentile 155, median 158, 75th percentile 162.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.40 · Median 3.62 · 75th 3.80
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.40, median 3.62, 75th percentile 3.80.
GRE Verbal25th 153 · Median 157 · 75th 160
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 153, median 157, 75th percentile 160.
GRE Quantitative25th 148 · Median 149 · 75th 154
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 148, median 149, 75th percentile 154.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2025. 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 (2025)
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Report year 2025
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
375
1L
145
2L
117
3L
97
4L
16
J.D. degrees awarded
98

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
3%
Upper-level academic attrition
1%
Transfers in
2
1L transfers out
2
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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