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

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Richmond

University of Richmond received 1,738 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 689 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 39.6%. 146 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 21.2%. The full first-year class came to 146 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 413.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 164, with a 25th percentile of 159 and a 75th of 167. That is 5 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 49 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.66 at the 25th percentile, 3.81 at the median and 3.92 at the 75th. 2 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $57,700 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $26,510. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $84,210 for one year, or $252,630 across three, before any grant. 319 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 81% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $40,000. 108 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 121 of 151 passed, a rate of 80.13%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 77.32%, so the school ran 2.81 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 104 of 117 graduates (88.9%) held a job requiring bar admission. 12 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (10.3% of the class), of whom 6 went to firms of 501 or more. 3 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Virginia with 71 graduates, followed by New York with 6.

University of Richmond has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1928. It is a private school based in Richmond, VA. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year. 1 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Virginia has 8 ABA-approved law schools. The Virginia 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 Richmond 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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