Capital University Law School: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Capital University

Capital University received 874 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 576 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 65.9%. 178 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 30.9%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 180 students: 143 full time and 37 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 483.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 151, with a 25th percentile of 148 and a 75th of 157. That is 8 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 178 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.07 at the 25th percentile, 3.44 at the median and 3.66 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $45,066 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $390. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $21,112. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $66,568 for one year, or $199,704 across three, before any grant. 444 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 96% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $21,000. The school reports that it awards conditional scholarships, so read any offer letter for the retention condition.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 104 of 144 passed, a rate of 72.22%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 80.40%, so the school ran 8.18 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 87 of 121 graduates (71.9%) held a job requiring bar admission. 5 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (4.1% of the class), of whom 1 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was Ohio with 87 graduates, followed by Alaska with 2.

Capital University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1954. It is a private school based in Columbus, OH. 17 first-year students left for academic reasons, 9.0% of the class. 2 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Ohio has 9 ABA-approved law schools. The Ohio 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 Capital University 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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