University of Oregon School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Oregon

University of Oregon received 1,850 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 1,017 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 55.0%. 185 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 18.2%. The full first-year class came to 186 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 481.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 160, with a 25th percentile of 157 and a 75th of 162. That is 1 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 85 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.32 at the 25th percentile, 3.62 at the median and 3.79 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $47,240 for residents and $59,495 for non-residents, a gap of $12,255 a year. Mandatory fees add $1,372. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $22,020. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $82,887 for one year, or $248,661 across three, before any grant. 338 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 74% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $25,000. 20 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 131 of 154 passed, a rate of 85.06%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 76.32%, so the school ran 8.74 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 119 of 142 graduates (83.8%) held a job requiring bar admission. 8 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (5.6% of the class), of whom 4 went to firms of 501 or more. 3 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Oregon with 69 graduates, followed by California with 12.

University of Oregon has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a public school based in Eugene, OR. 6 first-year students left for academic reasons, 3.0% of the class. 2 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

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