University of Colorado Law School: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Colorado

University of Colorado received 3,458 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 953 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 27.6%. 193 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 20.3%. The full first-year class came to 199 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 547.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 164, with a 25th percentile of 161 and a 75th of 167. That is 5 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 49 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.62 at the 25th percentile, 3.81 at the median and 3.91 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $35,992 for residents and $44,002 for non-residents, a gap of $8,010 a year. Mandatory fees add $1,333. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $27,626. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $72,961 for one year, or $218,883 across three, before any grant. 444 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 87% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $15,000. 17 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 151 of 167 passed, a rate of 90.42%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 84.93%, so the school ran 5.49 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 148 of 157 graduates (94.3%) held a job requiring bar admission. 35 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (22.3% of the class), of whom 22 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Colorado with 118 graduates, followed by California with 4.

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

The full 509 record

Colorado has 2 ABA-approved law schools. The Colorado 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 Colorado 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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