University of Denver Sturm College of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Denver Sturm

University of Denver Sturm received 2,214 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 915 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 41.3%. 283 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 30.9%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 285 students: 234 full time and 51 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 851.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 160, with a 25th percentile of 156 and a 75th of 162. That is 1 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 85 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.36 at the 25th percentile, 3.66 at the median and 3.80 at the 75th. 1 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $63,390 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $422. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $27,260. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $91,072 for one year, or $273,216 across three, before any grant. 679 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 78% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $30,000. 128 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 178 entering students held one and 0 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 191 of 225 passed, a rate of 84.89%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 85.07%, so the school ran 0.18 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 229 of 285 graduates (80.4%) held a job requiring bar admission. 34 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (11.9% of the class), of whom 23 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Colorado with 213 graduates, followed by District Of Columbia with 5.

University of Denver Sturm has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a private school based in Denver, CO. 2 first-year students left for academic reasons, 1.0% of the class. 5 students transferred in from other law schools.

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 Denver Sturm College 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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