Case Western Reserve University School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University received 2,267 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 789 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 34.8%. 178 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 22.6%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 180 students: 145 full time and 35 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 531.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 162, with a 25th percentile of 156 and a 75th of 164. That is 3 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 67 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.51 at the 25th percentile, 3.76 at the median and 3.89 at the 75th. 6 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $64,600 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $952. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $32,008. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $97,560 for one year, or $292,680 across three, before any grant. 496 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 98% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $42,500.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 132 of 161 passed, a rate of 81.99%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 81.00%, so the school ran 0.99 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 109 of 142 graduates (76.8%) held a job requiring bar admission. 29 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (20.4% of the class), of whom 17 went to firms of 501 or more. 4 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Ohio with 93 graduates, followed by New York with 7.

Case Western Reserve University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a private school based in Cleveland, OH. 1 first-year students left for academic reasons, 1.0% of the class. 1 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 Case Western Reserve University School of Law 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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