J. Reuben Clark Law School: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about J. Reuben Clark

J. Reuben Clark received 649 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 148 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 22.8%. 120 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 81.1%. The full first-year class came to 122 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 348.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 170, with a 25th percentile of 168 and a 75th of 172. That is 11 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 18 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.82 at the 25th percentile, 3.95 at the median and 3.98 at the 75th. 1 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $15,992 for residents and $31,984 for non-residents, a gap of $15,992 a year. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $22,436. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $54,420 for one year, or $163,260 across three, before any grant. 344 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 98% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $11,646. 158 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 3 entering students held one and 0 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 123 of 136 passed, a rate of 90.44%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 83.58%, so the school ran 6.86 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 121 of 127 graduates (95.3%) held a job requiring bar admission. 37 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (29.1% of the class), of whom 29 went to firms of 501 or more. 9 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Utah with 66 graduates, followed by Texas with 11.

J. Reuben Clark has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1974. It is a private school based in Provo, UT. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year. 1 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Utah has 2 ABA-approved law schools. The Utah guide compares them on LSAT median, cost and bar passage, and covers the state's admission rules.

Data: ABA Standard 509 Information Report (2025), published for consumer disclosure, retrieved from the ABA Required Disclosures portal on 2026-09-01. Bar passage and employment figures come from the same portal's Bar Passage Outcomes and Employment Summary reports for the class of 2024. Figures describe the 2025 to 2026 reporting cycle for J. Reuben Clark Law School and are restated in our own structure; no ABA document or file is reproduced here. Verify anything decision-critical with the school.

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