Suffolk University Law School: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Suffolk University

Suffolk University received 3,481 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 2,153 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 61.9%. 541 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 25.1%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 544 students: 458 full time and 86 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 1,337.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 155, with a 25th percentile of 152 and a 75th of 159. That is 4 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 132 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.37 at the 25th percentile, 3.58 at the median and 3.79 at the 75th. 7 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $62,610 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $1,436. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $34,706. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $98,752 for one year, or $296,256 across three, before any grant. 962 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 81% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $22,445. 28 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 304 of 383 passed, a rate of 79.37%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 83.51%, so the school ran 4.14 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 274 of 358 graduates (76.5%) held a job requiring bar admission. 40 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (11.2% of the class), of whom 33 went to firms of 501 or more. 4 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Massachusetts with 263 graduates, followed by New York with 8.

Suffolk University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1953. It is a private school based in Boston, MA. 3 first-year students left for academic reasons, 1.0% of the class. 2 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Massachusetts has 8 ABA-approved law schools. The Massachusetts 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 Suffolk University Law School 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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