Fordham University School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Fordham University

Fordham University received 8,811 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 1,429 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 16.2%. 433 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 30.3%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 444 students: 374 full time and 70 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 1,352.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 168, with a 25th percentile of 165 and a 75th of 170. That is 9 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 29 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.60 at the 25th percentile, 3.79 at the median and 3.88 at the 75th. 9 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $78,078 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $1,170. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $37,354. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $116,602 for one year, or $349,806 across three, before any grant. 1,161 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 87% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $35,000.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 424 of 456 passed, a rate of 92.98%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 85.77%, so the school ran 7.21 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 359 of 420 graduates (85.5%) held a job requiring bar admission. 212 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (50.5% of the class), of whom 188 went to firms of 501 or more. 13 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was New York with 331 graduates, followed by New Jersey with 14.

Fordham University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1936. It is a private school based in New York, NY. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year. 12 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

New York has 15 ABA-approved law schools. The New York 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 Fordham 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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