University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce

University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce received 1,455 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 756 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 52.0%. 245 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 32.4%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 248 students: 156 full time and 92 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 685.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 155, with a 25th percentile of 151 and a 75th of 159. That is 4 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 132 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.10 at the 25th percentile, 3.50 at the median and 3.72 at the 75th. 23 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $42,000 for residents and $50,000 for non-residents, a gap of $8,000 a year. Mandatory fees add $348. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $27,094. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $77,442 for one year, or $232,326 across three, before any grant. 456 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 69% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $20,000. 13 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 124 of 156 passed, a rate of 79.49%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 79.20%, so the school ran 0.29 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 113 of 192 graduates (58.9%) held a job requiring bar admission. 18 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (9.4% of the class), of whom 12 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was New Hampshire with 39 graduates, followed by Massachusetts with 17.

University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1974. It is a public school based in Concord, NH. 12 first-year students left for academic reasons, 4.0% 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 New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School 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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