Roger Williams University School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Roger Williams University

Roger Williams University received 1,003 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 615 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 61.3%. 188 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 30.6%. The full first-year class came to 189 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 486.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 150, with a 25th percentile of 147 and a 75th of 154. That is 9 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 183 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.02 at the 25th percentile, 3.43 at the median and 3.73 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $47,400 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $1,690. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $25,616. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $74,706 for one year, or $224,118 across three, before any grant. 311 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 65% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $28,000. 15 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 89 entering students held one and 12 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 101 of 177 passed, a rate of 57.06%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 76.37%, so the school ran 19.31 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 118 of 169 graduates (69.8%) held a job requiring bar admission. 3 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (1.8% of the class), of whom 1 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was Rhode Island with 76 graduates, followed by Massachusetts with 19.

Roger Williams University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1995. It is a private school based in Bristol, RI. 4 first-year students left for academic reasons, 2.0% of the class. 1 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

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 Roger Williams 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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