McGeorge School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about McGeorge School of Law

McGeorge School of Law received 1,248 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 679 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 54.4%. 212 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 31.2%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 213 students: 170 full time and 43 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 615.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 156, with a 25th percentile of 153 and a 75th of 160. That is 3 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 122 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.17 at the 25th percentile, 3.52 at the median and 3.73 at the 75th. 4 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $62,678 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $640. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $35,081. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $98,399 for one year, or $295,197 across three, before any grant. 536 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 93% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $30,426. 143 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 128 entering students held one and 43 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 103 of 146 passed, a rate of 70.55%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 77.62%, so the school ran 7.07 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 104 of 148 graduates (70.3%) held a job requiring bar admission. 7 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (4.7% of the class), of whom 5 went to firms of 501 or more. 2 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was California with 119 graduates, followed by Nevada with 2.

McGeorge School of Law has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1968. It is a private school based in Sacramento, CA. 6 first-year students left for academic reasons, 3.0% of the class.

The full 509 record

California has 17 ABA-approved law schools. The California 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 McGeorge 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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