University of California, Irvine School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine received 3,720 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 555 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 14.9%. 188 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 33.9%. The full first-year class came to 189 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 493.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 169, with a 25th percentile of 166 and a 75th of 170. That is 10 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 23 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.59 at the 25th percentile, 3.80 at the median and 3.90 at the 75th. 6 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $59,080 for residents and $71,325 for non-residents, a gap of $12,245 a year. Mandatory fees add $2,208. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $37,293. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $110,826 for one year, or $332,478 across three, before any grant. 451 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 95% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $25,000.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 136 of 159 passed, a rate of 85.53%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 77.98%, so the school ran 7.55 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 144 of 155 graduates (92.9%) held a job requiring bar admission. 54 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (34.8% of the class), of whom 43 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was California with 128 graduates, followed by District Of Columbia with 3.

University of California, Irvine has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 2014. It is a public school based in Irvine, CA. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year. 5 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

California has 17 ABA-approved law schools. The California 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 University of California, Irvine 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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