New England Law | Boston: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about New England Law | Boston

New England Law | Boston received 3,997 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 2,450 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 61.3%. 446 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 18.2%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 451 students: 354 full time and 97 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 1,189.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 153, with a 25th percentile of 149 and a 75th of 157. That is 6 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 157 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.06 at the 25th percentile, 3.37 at the median and 3.68 at the 75th. 5 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $62,896 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $320. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $48,437. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $111,653 for one year, or $334,959 across three, before any grant. 1,001 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 88% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $40,000. 334 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 290 entering students held one and 75 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 213 of 269 passed, a rate of 79.18%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 83.29%, so the school ran 4.11 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 179 of 327 graduates (54.7%) held a job requiring bar admission. 10 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (3.1% of the class), of whom 5 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Massachusetts with 152 graduates, followed by New York with 15.

New England Law | Boston has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1973. It is a private school based in Boston, MA. 37 first-year students left for academic reasons, 9.0% of the class. 1 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Massachusetts has 8 ABA-approved law schools. The Massachusetts 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 New England Law | Boston 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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