College of Law - University of Cincinnati: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about College of Law - University of Cincinnati

College of Law - University of Cincinnati received 1,353 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 443 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 32.7%. 135 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 30.5%. The full first-year class came to 139 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 398.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 159, with a 25th percentile of 156 and a 75th of 161. 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 3.64 at the 25th percentile, 3.80 at the median and 3.91 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $24,010 for residents and $29,010 for non-residents, a gap of $5,000 a year. Mandatory fees add $800. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $25,956. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $55,766 for one year, or $167,298 across three, before any grant. 375 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 100% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $19,000. 41 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 101 of 118 passed, a rate of 85.59%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 80.62%, so the school ran 4.97 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 106 of 127 graduates (83.5%) held a job requiring bar admission. 19 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (15.0% of the class), of whom 14 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Ohio with 79 graduates, followed by Kentucky with 8.

College of Law - University of Cincinnati has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a public school based in Cincinnati, OH. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year.

The full 509 record

Ohio has 9 ABA-approved law schools. The Ohio 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 College of Law - University of Cincinnati 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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