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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 $51,002 (based on out-of-state rate). The average acceptance rate is 42.35% 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 $51,002. Columbia Law School (Columbia University in the City of New York) has the highest tuition & fees of $81,292 and J. Reuben Clark Law School (Brigham Young University) has the lowest tuition & fees of $30,152.
The average LSAT score of the top 50 law schools is 159. Yale Law School has the highest LSAT score of 175 and Florida International University College of Law has the lowest score of 160.
The average acceptance rate of the schools is 42.35%. Yale Law School has the tightest (lowest) rate of 6% and University of Missouri School of Law has the loosest (lowest) rate of 52%.
The average law school population of the law schools is 714. Georgetown University Law Center has the most students of 3,030 and S.J. Quinney College of Law (University of Utah) has the fewest students of 320.
The average bar exam pass rate (for first-time exam takers) of the law schools is 77.17%. 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	175	3.96	5.6%	705	96.8%
2	Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA	$78,692	174	3.93	9.6%	2,031	96.1%
3	Stanford Law School Stanford, CA	$73,713	173	3.95	7.3%	682	96.7%
4	University of Virginia School of Law Charlottesville, VA	$77,700	171	3.94	11.5%	960	96.5%
5	Columbia Law School (Columbia University in the City of New York) New York, NY	$81,292	173	3.90	12.2%	1,748	93.7%
6	University of Pennsylvania Law School Philadelphia, PA	$76,934	172	3.92	9.9%	1,048	96.3%
7	University of Chicago Law School Chicago, IL	$77,877	173	3.94	12.8%	686	97.1%
8	University of Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, MI	$72,584	171	3.85	12.6%	978	97.3%
9	New York University School of Law New York, NY	$80,014	172	3.90	16.8%	2,094	96.6%
10	Georgetown University Law Center Washington, DC	$79,672	171	3.91	19.6%	3,030	90.5%
11	Berkeley School of Law (University of California-Berkeley) Berkeley, CA	$74,995	170	3.87	14.9%	1,302	88.2%
12	Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Chicago, IL	$74,552	172	3.92	15.5%	1,189	91.6%
13	Duke University School of Law Durham, NC	$75,618	170	3.87	10.5%	868	94.4%
14	Los Angeles School of Law (University of California-Los Angeles) Los Angeles, CA	$71,430	170	3.92	16.8%	1,376	88.8%
15	Cornell Law School Ithaca, NY	$77,593	172	3.90	18.4%	875	94.3%
16	University of Texas School of Law Austin, TX	$54,096	171	3.86	14.9%	1,005	94.0%
17	Washington University School of Law St. Louis, MO	$67,744	173	3.95	17.2%	1,341	91.9%
18	J. Reuben Clark Law School (Brigham Young University) Provo, UT	$30,152	168	3.94	28.8%	379	95.4%
19	University of North Carolina School of Law Chapel Hill, NC	$51,486	166	3.78	16.3%	572	92.0%
20	Gould School of Law (University of Southern California) Los Angeles, CA	$78,038	169	3.88	12.5%	1,436	82.4%
21	Vanderbilt University Law School Nashville, TN	$75,440	170	3.89	16.8%	555	97.0%
22	University of Georgia School of Law Athens, GA	$37,752	169	3.83	14.8%	694	83.7%
23	Boston University School of Law Boston, MA	$65,020	170	3.86	17.8%	1,070	87.7%
24	University of Minnesota Law School Minneapolis, MN	$58,396	168	3.85	39.8%	720	89.6%
25	George Mason University School of Law Arlington, VA	$42,798	168	3.89	14.0%	924	87.4%
26	Notre Dame Law School Notre Dame, IL	$68,554	169	3.83	24.4%	565	91.5%
27	University of Wisconsin Law School Madison, MI	$52,893	165	3.79	35.6%	729	100.0%
28	The George Washington University Law School Washington, DC	$69,740	168	3.85	28.7%	1,870	86.1%
29	Fordham University School of Law New York, NY	$72,282	167	3.75	21.1%	1,575	87.8%
30	Levin College of Law (University of Florida) Gainesville, FL	$38,040	169	3.91	17.0%	762	81.9%
31	The University of Alabama School of Law Tuscaloosa, AL	$44,470	167	3.95	26.6%	473	91.3%
32	S.J. Quinney College of Law (University of Utah) Salt Lake City, UT	$43,598	164	3.85	30.2%	320	94.0%
33	Irvine School of Law (University of California-Irvine) Irvine, CA	$68,190	167	3.72	18.2%	510	86.9%
34	Texas A&M University School of Law Fort Worth, TX	$48,618	166	3.97	14.6%	1,683	93.0%
35	Emory University School of Law Atlanta, GA	$65,510	166	3.82	40.9%	879	86.2%
36	Boston College Law School Newton, MA	$66,895	167	3.77	13.4%	765	95.9%
37	Marshall-Wythe School of Law (William & Mary) Williamsburg, VA	$68,329	166	3.77	27.3%	556	93.0%
38	Villanova University School of Law Villanova, PA	$58,615	164	3.80	22.5%	777	91.8%
39	Wake Forest University School of Law Winston-Salem, NC	$54,192	165	3.79	31.5%	682	93.3%
40	Michael E. Moritz College of Law (Ohio State University-Main Campus) Columbus, OH	$49,292	165	3.83	33.1%	564	90.7%
41	University of Illinois College of Law Champaign, IL	$51,893	165	3.75	43.7%	683	72.5%
42	Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University) New York, NY	$73,440	164	3.79	37.6%	1,030	83.9%
43	Maurer School of Law (Indiana University-Bloomington) Bloomington, IN	$62,526	164	3.86	46.9%	611	81.5%
44	Davis School of Law (University of California-Davis) Davis, CA	$67,164	165	3.69	29.0%	718	82.7%
45	Florida International University College of Law Miami, FL	$36,049	160	3.74	25.2%	591	86.5%
46	Washington and Lee University School of Law Lexington, VA	$55,550	165	3.72	31.4%	380	83.3%
47	Florida State University College of Law Tallahassee, FL	$40,705	165	3.85	21.1%	1,311	83.0%
48	University of Iowa College of Law Iowa City, IA	$51,955	163	3.76	47.7%	555	88.9%
49	University of Missouri School of Law Columbia, MO	$31,339	160	3.70	52.5%	424	86.9%
	Average	$51,002	159	3.606	42.3%	714	77.2%