University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg

University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg received 1,236 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 504 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 40.8%. 143 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 28.4%. The full first-year class came to 147 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 419.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 159, with a 25th percentile of 156 and a 75th of 162. That median matches the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 92 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.52 at the 25th percentile, 3.72 at the median and 3.90 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $25,685 for residents and $49,836 for non-residents, a gap of $24,151 a year. Mandatory fees add $1,616. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $28,425. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $79,877 for one year, or $239,631 across three, before any grant. 386 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 98% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $11,000. 17 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 113 of 136 passed, a rate of 83.09%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 78.83%, so the school ran 4.26 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 103 of 115 graduates (89.6%) held a job requiring bar admission. 9 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (7.8% of the class), of whom 2 went to firms of 501 or more. 7 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Kentucky with 78 graduates, followed by Florida with 8.

University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1925. It is a public school based in Lexington, KY. 1 first-year students left for academic reasons, 1.0% of the class. 3 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Kentucky has 3 ABA-approved law schools. The Kentucky 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 Kentucky J. David Rosenberg 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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