UCLA School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about UCLA School of Law

UCLA School of Law received 8,623 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 1,039 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 12.0%. 322 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 31.0%. The full first-year class came to 328 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 1,020.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 171, with a 25th percentile of 166 and a 75th of 172. That is 12 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 13 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.73 at the 25th percentile, 3.95 at the median and 4.00 at the 75th. 1 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $59,084 for residents and $71,329 for non-residents, a gap of $12,245 a year. Mandatory fees add $2,778. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $40,046. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $114,153 for one year, or $342,459 across three, before any grant. 825 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 83% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $24,456. 87 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 343 of 364 passed, a rate of 94.23%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 78.85%, so the school ran 15.38 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 313 of 332 graduates (94.3%) held a job requiring bar admission. 187 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (56.3% of the class), of whom 182 went to firms of 501 or more. 13 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was California with 266 graduates, followed by New York with 30.

UCLA School of Law has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1950. It is a public school based in Los Angeles, CA. 1 first-year students left for academic reasons, 0.0% of the class. 35 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 UCLA 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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