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

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Dayton

University of Dayton received 1,611 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 494 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 30.7%. 167 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 33.8%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 168 students: 89 full time and 79 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 442.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 157, with a 25th percentile of 154 and a 75th of 160. That is 2 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 109 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.31 at the 25th percentile, 3.60 at the median and 3.87 at the 75th. 6 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

The school bills tuition by the credit hour rather than by the year, at $1,380 a credit, against the 90 credits the JD requires. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $19,395. 384 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 102% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $33,000. 21 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 95 of 108 passed, a rate of 87.96%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 80.10%, so the school ran 7.86 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 72 of 92 graduates (78.3%) held a job requiring bar admission. 14 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (15.2% of the class), of whom 7 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was Ohio with 45 graduates, followed by Texas with 6.

University of Dayton has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1975. It is a private school based in Dayton, OH. 3 first-year students left for academic reasons, 2.0% of the class. 4 students transferred in from other law schools.

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 University of Dayton 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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