Lewis & Clark Law School: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Lewis & Clark

Lewis & Clark received 1,133 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 620 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 54.7%. 171 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 27.6%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 176 students: 156 full time and 20 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 519.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 161, with a 25th percentile of 158 and a 75th of 166. That is 2 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 74 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.24 at the 25th percentile, 3.59 at the median and 3.79 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $61,434 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $50. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $28,370. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $89,854 for one year, or $269,562 across three, before any grant. 484 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 95% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $26,000. 2 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 159 of 187 passed, a rate of 85.03%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 75.03%, so the school ran 10.00 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 123 of 153 graduates (80.4%) held a job requiring bar admission. 7 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (4.6% of the class), of whom 4 went to firms of 501 or more. 2 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Oregon with 90 graduates, followed by Washington with 13.

Lewis & Clark has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1970. It is a private school based in Portland, OR. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year. 3 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Oregon has 3 ABA-approved law schools. The Oregon 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 Lewis & Clark Law School 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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