Liberty School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Liberty School of Law

Liberty School of Law received 628 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 369 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 58.8%. 140 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 37.9%. The full first-year class came to 141 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 326.

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 3.36 at the 25th percentile, 3.54 at the median and 3.81 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $43,150 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $2,198. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $26,532. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $71,880 for one year, or $215,640 across three, before any grant. 302 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 100% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $24,000. The school reports conditional scholarships: 96 entering students held one and 0 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 95 of 112 passed, a rate of 84.82%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 77.78%, so the school ran 7.04 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 89 of 100 graduates (89.0%) held a job requiring bar admission. The largest single destination was Virginia with 34 graduates, followed by Florida with 12.

Liberty School of Law has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 2006. It is a private school based in Lynchburg, VA. 9 first-year students left for academic reasons, 8.0% of the class. 1 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Virginia has 8 ABA-approved law schools. The Virginia 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 Liberty 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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