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Yale Law School ranked first and Harvard Law School ranked second in 2025 law school rankings. The 2025 average law school tuition & fees of the top 50 law schools is $53,320 (based on out-of-state rate). The average acceptance rate is 41.58% and the average LSAT score is 159.

The following list summarizes the important law school statistics for the top 50 law schools. The law school tuition is 2025 rate from each schools' finance / bursar office. The admission and other statistics is based on ABA and IPDES 2024 data.

The 2025 average tuition & fees of the top 50 law schools is $53,320. Columbia Law School (Columbia University in the City of New York) has the highest tuition & fees of $84,820 and J. Reuben Clark Law School (Brigham Young University) has the lowest tuition & fees of $31,056.
The average LSAT score of the top 50 law schools is 159. Yale Law School has the highest LSAT score of 174 and Florida International University College of Law has the lowest score of 160.
The average acceptance rate of the schools is 41.58%. Yale Law School has the tightest (lowest) rate of 5% and University of Iowa College of Law has the loosest (lowest) rate of 60%.
The average law school population of the law schools is 707. Georgetown University Law Center has the most students of 2,993 and S.J. Quinney College of Law (University of Utah) has the fewest students of 347.
The average bar exam pass rate (for first-time exam takers) of the law schools is 77.28%. University of Wisconsin Law School has the highest rate of 100% and University of Illinois College of Law has the lowest rate of 72%.

Best Law Schools

Rank	College Name	2025 Tuition & Fees	LSAT Score	GPA	Acceptance Rate	Student Population	Bar Pass Rate
1	Yale Law School New Haven, CT	$76,369	174	3.96	5.3%	615	96.8%
2	Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA	$78,692	174	3.95	11.0%	2,003	96.1%
3	Stanford Law School Stanford, CA	$76,608	173	3.92	8.9%	666	96.7%
4	University of Virginia School of Law Charlottesville, VA	$77,700	172	3.96	13.9%	957	96.5%
5	Columbia Law School (Columbia University in the City of New York) New York, NY	$84,820	173	3.90	11.8%	1,714	95.4%
6	University of Pennsylvania Law School Philadelphia, PA	$80,592	172	3.93	10.0%	1,009	96.3%
7	University of Chicago Law School Chicago, IL	$81,069	173	3.94	12.7%	711	97.1%
8	University of Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, MI	$72,584	171	3.86	11.9%	1,036	97.3%
9	New York University School of Law New York, NY	$83,152	172	3.91	16.7%	2,058	96.6%
10	Georgetown University Law Center Washington, DC	$79,672	171	3.92	20.1%	2,993	90.5%
11	Berkeley School of Law (University of California-Berkeley) Berkeley, CA	$78,881	170	3.87	17.3%	1,306	88.2%
12	Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Chicago, IL	$77,532	172	3.95	15.4%	1,225	91.6%
13	Duke University School of Law Durham, NC	$78,774	170	3.89	13.9%	846	94.4%
14	Los Angeles School of Law (University of California-Los Angeles) Los Angeles, CA	$71,377	170	3.95	16.1%	1,335	88.8%
15	Cornell Law School Ithaca, NY	$81,416	173	3.89	23.1%	877	94.9%
16	University of Texas School of Law Austin, TX	$56,822	171	3.89	15.6%	893	94.0%
17	Washington University School of Law St. Louis, MO	$70,844	173	3.96	19.9%	1,181	91.9%
18	J. Reuben Clark Law School (Brigham Young University) Provo, UT	$31,056	168	3.92	27.8%	359	95.4%
19	University of North Carolina School of Law Chapel Hill, NC	$51,486	167	3.85	15.2%	544	92.0%
20	Gould School of Law (University of Southern California) Los Angeles, CA	$81,940	169	3.91	12.4%	1,421	82.4%
21	Vanderbilt University Law School Nashville, TN	$75,440	169	3.89	18.5%	561	97.0%
22	University of Georgia School of Law Athens, GA	$39,596	169	3.91	14.5%	776	91.6%
23	Boston University School of Law Boston, MA	$68,136	170	3.88	20.6%	1,033	87.7%
24	University of Minnesota Law School Minneapolis, MN	$60,878	169	3.88	34.9%	681	89.6%
25	George Mason University School of Law Arlington, VA	$42,798	168	3.92	14.6%	635	87.4%
26	Notre Dame Law School Notre Dame, IL	$71,126	169	3.85	23.3%	573	91.5%
27	University of Wisconsin Law School Madison, MI	$53,929	165	3.81	28.9%	705	100.0%
28	The George Washington University Law School Washington, DC	$72,520	168	3.87	32.6%	1,966	86.1%
29	Fordham University School of Law New York, NY	$75,728	167	3.76	22.2%	1,733	87.8%
30	Levin College of Law (University of Florida) Gainesville, FL	$38,039	169	3.90	17.4%	705	81.9%
31	The University of Alabama School of Law Tuscaloosa, AL	$47,537	165	3.95	26.6%	427	91.3%
32	S.J. Quinney College of Law (University of Utah) Salt Lake City, UT	$45,102	165	3.86	24.8%	347	94.0%
33	Irvine School of Law (University of California-Irvine) Irvine, CA	$70,823	167	3.81	17.4%	508	86.9%
34	Texas A&M University School of Law Fort Worth, TX	$48,682	168	3.97	13.5%	2,043	93.0%
35	Emory University School of Law Atlanta, GA	$68,384	165	3.81	40.1%	823	86.2%
36	Boston College Law School Newton, MA	$70,115	167	3.80	13.3%	647	95.9%
37	Marshall-Wythe School of Law (William & Mary) Williamsburg, VA	$68,576	164	3.75	32.2%	534	93.0%
38	Villanova University School of Law Villanova, PA	$58,815	164	3.81	21.9%	740	91.8%
39	Wake Forest University School of Law Winston-Salem, NC	$56,274	166	3.84	26.8%	655	92.4%
40	Michael E. Moritz College of Law (Ohio State University-Main Campus) Columbus, OH	$50,531	166	3.89	29.4%	579	90.7%
41	University of Illinois College of Law Champaign, IL	$49,877	165	3.77	46.8%	605	72.5%
42	Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University) New York, NY	$73,440	164	3.80	37.5%	1,048	83.9%
43	Maurer School of Law (Indiana University-Bloomington) Bloomington, IN	$59,522	164	3.91	39.5%	533	81.5%
44	Davis School of Law (University of California-Davis) Davis, CA	$69,654	163	3.68	33.2%	673	82.7%
45	Florida International University College of Law Miami, FL	-	160	3.73	21.0%	634	86.5%
46	Washington and Lee University School of Law Lexington, VA	$57,180	166	3.73	31.7%	354	83.3%
47	Florida State University College of Law Tallahassee, FL	-	165	3.91	19.6%	1,291	83.0%
48	University of Iowa College of Law Iowa City, IA	$53,759	162	3.76	59.8%	590	88.2%
49	University of Missouri School of Law Columbia, MO	$31,339	160	3.76	52.0%	410	86.9%
	Average	$53,320	159	3.624	41.6%	707	77.3%