University of Connecticut School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Connecticut

University of Connecticut received 2,299 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 461 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 20.1%. 149 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 32.3%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 151 students: 125 full time and 26 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 479.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 162, with a 25th percentile of 160 and a 75th of 164. That is 3 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 67 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.55 at the 25th percentile, 3.78 at the median and 3.90 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $30,354 for residents and $61,396 for non-residents, a gap of $31,042 a year. Mandatory fees add $1,246. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $25,860. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $88,502 for one year, or $265,506 across three, before any grant. 428 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 91% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $15,177. 12 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 126 of 150 passed, a rate of 84.00%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 75.84%, so the school ran 8.16 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 117 of 142 graduates (82.4%) held a job requiring bar admission. 26 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (18.3% of the class), of whom 18 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Connecticut with 91 graduates, followed by Massachusetts with 15.

University of Connecticut has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1933. It is a public school based in Hartford, CT. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year. 2 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Connecticut has 3 ABA-approved law schools. The Connecticut 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 Connecticut 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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