Florida State University College of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Florida State University

Florida State University received 2,711 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 433 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 16.0%. 153 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 35.3%. The full first-year class came to 153 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 455.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 166, with a 25th percentile of 158 and a 75th of 167. That is 7 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 38 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.60 at the 25th percentile, 3.93 at the median and 3.99 at the 75th. 2 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

The school bills tuition by the credit hour rather than by the year, at $1,422 a credit, against the 88 credits the JD requires. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $23,180. 328 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 78% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $15,464. 116 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 157 of 180 passed, a rate of 87.22%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 73.35%, so the school ran 13.87 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 115 of 132 graduates (87.1%) held a job requiring bar admission. 23 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (17.4% of the class), of whom 12 went to firms of 501 or more. 5 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Florida with 102 graduates, followed by Georgia with 4.

Florida State University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1968. It is a public school based in Tallahassee, FL. 1 first-year students left for academic reasons, 1.0% of the class. 17 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Florida has 11 ABA-approved law schools. The Florida 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 Florida State University College 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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