University of Idaho College of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Idaho

University of Idaho received 740 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 494 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 66.8%. 194 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 39.3%. The full first-year class came to 197 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 502.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 153, with a 25th percentile of 149 and a 75th of 157. That is 6 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 157 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.07 at the 25th percentile, 3.54 at the median and 3.81 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $27,516 for residents and $46,752 for non-residents, a gap of $19,236 a year. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $20,136. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $66,888 for one year, or $200,664 across three, before any grant. 231 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 46% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $8,000.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 80 of 117 passed, a rate of 68.38%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 78.38%, so the school ran 10.00 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 114 of 137 graduates (83.2%) held a job requiring bar admission. 2 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (1.5% of the class), of whom 2 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Idaho with 84 graduates, followed by Washington with 8.

University of Idaho has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1925. It is a public school based in Moscow, ID. 5 first-year students left for academic reasons, 3.0% of the class. 2 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

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 Idaho 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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