Seattle University School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Seattle University

Seattle University received 2,304 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 897 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 38.9%. 209 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 23.3%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 209 students: 150 full time and 59 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 646.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 159, with a 25th percentile of 155 and a 75th of 162. 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 3.22 at the 25th percentile, 3.60 at the median and 3.80 at the 75th. 5 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

The school bills tuition by the credit hour rather than by the year, at $2,061 a credit, against the 90 credits the JD requires. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $34,161. 581 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 87% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $30,000. 74 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 140 entering students held one and 36 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 163 of 207 passed, a rate of 78.74%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 82.24%, so the school ran 3.50 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 155 of 204 graduates (76.0%) held a job requiring bar admission. 12 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (5.9% of the class), of whom 11 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was Washington with 152 graduates, followed by California with 7.

Seattle University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1994. It is a private school based in Seattle, WA. 9 first-year students left for academic reasons, 4.0% of the class. 4 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Washington has 3 ABA-approved law schools. The Washington 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 Seattle 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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