Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad

Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad received 1,458 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 690 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 47.3%. 224 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 32.5%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 225 students: 200 full time and 25 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 634.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 155, with a 25th percentile of 152 and a 75th of 158. That is 4 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 132 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.34 at the 25th percentile, 3.52 at the median and 3.71 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $49,350 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $1,360. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $40,413. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $91,123 for one year, or $273,369 across three, before any grant. 484 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 78% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $15,000.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 128 of 190 passed, a rate of 67.37%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 72.78%, so the school ran 5.41 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 145 of 203 graduates (71.4%) held a job requiring bar admission. 29 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (14.3% of the class), of whom 14 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was Florida with 148 graduates, followed by New York with 2.

Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1975. It is a private school based in Davie, FL. 8 first-year students left for academic reasons, 4.0% of the class.

The full 509 record

Florida has 11 ABA-approved law schools. The Florida 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 Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad 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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