Moritz College of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Moritz College of Law

Moritz College of Law received 2,291 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 564 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 24.6%. 158 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 28.0%. The full first-year class came to 159 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 486.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 168, with a 25th percentile of 163 and a 75th of 169. That is 9 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 29 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.64 at the 25th percentile, 3.91 at the median and 3.97 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $35,650 for residents and $50,902 for non-residents, a gap of $15,252 a year. Mandatory fees add $1,613. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $23,692. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $76,207 for one year, or $228,621 across three, before any grant. 433 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 90% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $29,984. 175 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 160 of 174 passed, a rate of 91.95%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 80.32%, so the school ran 11.63 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 139 of 157 graduates (88.5%) held a job requiring bar admission. 42 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (26.8% of the class), of whom 29 went to firms of 501 or more. 2 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Ohio with 108 graduates, followed by New York with 6.

Moritz College of Law has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a public school based in Columbus, OH. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year. 5 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Ohio has 9 ABA-approved law schools. The Ohio 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 Moritz 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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