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

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma received 1,391 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 464 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 33.4%. 197 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 42.5%. The full first-year class came to 200 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 539.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 162, with a 25th percentile of 159 and a 75th of 164. That is 3 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 67 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.42 at the 25th percentile, 3.73 at the median and 3.88 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $18,379 for residents and $33,357 for non-residents, a gap of $14,978 a year. Mandatory fees add $6,274. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $27,748. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $67,379 for one year, or $202,137 across three, before any grant. 451 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 89% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $12,000. 12 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 166 of 187 passed, a rate of 88.77%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 80.56%, so the school ran 8.21 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 144 of 158 graduates (91.1%) held a job requiring bar admission. 12 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (7.6% of the class), of whom 8 went to firms of 501 or more. 4 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Oklahoma with 84 graduates, followed by Texas with 42.

University of Oklahoma has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a public school based in Norman, OK. 1 first-year students left for academic reasons, 1.0% of the class. 5 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Oklahoma has 3 ABA-approved law schools. The Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma 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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