Elon University School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Elon University

Elon University received 1,107 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 589 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 53.2%. 228 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 38.7%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 228 students: 182 full time and 46 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 540.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 154, with a 25th percentile of 151 and a 75th of 158. That is 5 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 148 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.11 at the 25th percentile, 3.40 at the median and 3.70 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $45,333 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $31,000. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $76,333 for one year, or $228,999 across three, before any grant. 430 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 90% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $23,571. 34 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 61 entering students held one and 0 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 106 of 138 passed, a rate of 76.81%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 78.83%, so the school ran 2.02 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 112 of 135 graduates (83.0%) held a job requiring bar admission. 3 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (2.2% of the class), of whom 1 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was North Carolina with 83 graduates, followed by South Carolina with 5.

Elon University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 2008. It is a private school based in Greensboro, NC. 15 first-year students left for academic reasons, 7.0% of the class.

The full 509 record

North Carolina has 6 ABA-approved law schools. The North Carolina 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 Elon 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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