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

What the 2025 numbers say about Georgia State University

Georgia State University received 2,450 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 749 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 30.6%. 237 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 31.6%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 237 students: 184 full time and 53 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 682.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 160, with a 25th percentile of 158 and a 75th of 163. That is 1 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 85 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.45 at the 25th percentile, 3.64 at the median and 3.82 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $16,162 for residents and $37,886 for non-residents, a gap of $21,724 a year. Mandatory fees add $1,434. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $26,693. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $66,013 for one year, or $198,039 across three, before any grant. 315 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 49% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $7,776. 82 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 72 entering students held one and 5 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 170 of 189 passed, a rate of 89.95%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 79.87%, so the school ran 10.08 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 174 of 195 graduates (89.2%) held a job requiring bar admission. 40 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (20.5% of the class), of whom 33 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Georgia with 174 graduates, followed by District Of Columbia with 2.

Georgia State University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1984. It is a public school based in Atlanta, GA. 1 first-year students left for academic reasons, 0.0% of the class. 7 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Georgia has 5 ABA-approved law schools. The Georgia 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 Georgia 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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