Penn State Dickinson Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Penn State Dickinson Law

Penn State Dickinson Law received 1,912 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 822 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 43.0%. 208 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 25.3%. The full first-year class came to 215 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 665.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 159, with a 25th percentile of 157 and a 75th of 161. That median matches the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 92 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.50 at the 25th percentile, 3.71 at the median and 3.86 at the 75th. 2 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $60,048 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $431. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $28,094. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $88,573 for one year, or $265,719 across three, before any grant. 692 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 100% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $36,000. 46 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 188 of 216 passed, a rate of 87.04%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 79.66%, so the school ran 7.38 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 187 of 223 graduates (83.9%) held a job requiring bar admission. 19 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (8.5% of the class), of whom 14 went to firms of 501 or more. 4 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Pennsylvania with 84 graduates, followed by New York with 19.

Penn State Dickinson Law has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1931. It is a public school based in Carlisle, PA. 1 first-year students left for academic reasons, 0.0% of the class.

The full 509 record

Pennsylvania has 8 ABA-approved law schools. The Pennsylvania 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 Penn State Dickinson 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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