University of Minnesota Law School: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota received 3,405 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 909 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 26.7%. 225 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 24.8%. The full first-year class came to 228 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 655.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 171, with a 25th percentile of 166 and a 75th of 173. That is 12 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 13 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.62 at the 25th percentile, 3.88 at the median and 3.95 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $51,440 for residents and $61,845 for non-residents, a gap of $10,405 a year. Mandatory fees add $2,678. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $19,600. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $84,123 for one year, or $252,369 across three, before any grant. 603 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 94% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $35,000. 7 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 223 of 237 passed, a rate of 94.09%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 83.36%, so the school ran 10.73 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 203 of 222 graduates (91.4%) held a job requiring bar admission. 52 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (23.4% of the class), of whom 39 went to firms of 501 or more. 7 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Minnesota with 122 graduates, followed by Illinois with 21.

University of Minnesota has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a public school based in South Minneapolis, MN. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year. 7 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Minnesota has 3 ABA-approved law schools. The Minnesota 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 Minnesota Law School 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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