Seton Hall University School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Seton Hall University

Seton Hall University received 2,714 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 930 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 34.3%. 300 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 32.3%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 302 students: 266 full time and 36 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 822.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 161, with a 25th percentile of 158 and a 75th of 164. That is 2 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 74 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.51 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 $69,660 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $1,890. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $28,548. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $100,098 for one year, or $300,294 across three, before any grant. 673 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 88% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $40,000. 7 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 266 of 305 passed, a rate of 87.21%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 75.69%, so the school ran 11.52 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 184 of 207 graduates (88.9%) held a job requiring bar admission. 38 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (18.4% of the class), of whom 26 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was New Jersey with 150 graduates, followed by New York with 38.

Seton Hall University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1951. It is a private school based in Newark, NJ. 14 first-year students left for academic reasons, 5.0% of the class. 2 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

New Jersey has 2 ABA-approved law schools. The New Jersey 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 Seton Hall 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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