Regent University School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Regent University

Regent University received 537 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 238 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 44.3%. 126 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 52.9%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 127 students: 123 full time and 4 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 341.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 158, with a 25th percentile of 153 and a 75th of 161. That is 1 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 100 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.37 at the 25th percentile, 3.68 at the median and 3.89 at the 75th.

The school bills tuition by the credit hour rather than by the year, at $1,400 a credit, against the 90 credits the JD requires. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $32,268. 316 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 97% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $22,500. 2 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 97 of 110 passed, a rate of 88.18%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 77.60%, so the school ran 10.58 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 96 of 103 graduates (93.2%) held a job requiring bar admission. 1 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (1.0% of the class), of whom 1 went to firms of 501 or more. 6 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Virginia with 46 graduates, followed by California with 4.

Regent University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1989. It is a private school based in Virginia Beach, VA. 6 first-year students left for academic reasons, 5.0% of the class.

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 Regent University 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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