University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign received 2,153 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 709 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 32.9%. 188 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 26.5%. The full first-year class came to 188 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 500.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 166, with a 25th percentile of 160 and a 75th of 168. That is 7 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 38 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.55 at the 25th percentile, 3.81 at the median and 3.92 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $36,500 for residents and $46,500 for non-residents, a gap of $10,000 a year. Mandatory fees add $3,404. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $20,620. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $70,524 for one year, or $211,572 across three, before any grant. 466 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 99% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $32,000. 10 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 189 of 202 passed, a rate of 93.56%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 79.05%, so the school ran 14.51 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 141 of 153 graduates (92.2%) held a job requiring bar admission. 51 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (33.3% of the class), of whom 43 went to firms of 501 or more. 7 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Illinois with 113 graduates, followed by California with 5.

University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a public school based in Champaign, IL. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year. 2 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Illinois has 9 ABA-approved law schools. The Illinois 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 Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign 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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