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

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Virginia

University of Virginia received 6,734 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 685 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 10.2%. 302 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 44.1%. The full first-year class came to 309 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 919.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 173, with a 25th percentile of 168 and a 75th of 175. That is 14 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 5 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.83 at the 25th percentile, 3.99 at the median and 4.04 at the 75th. 3 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $74,078 for residents and $76,396 for non-residents, a gap of $2,318 a year. Mandatory fees add $4,504. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $28,770. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $109,670 for one year, or $329,010 across three, before any grant. 607 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 66% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $35,000. 61 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 284 of 299 passed, a rate of 94.98%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 82.83%, so the school ran 12.15 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 302 of 308 graduates (98.1%) held a job requiring bar admission. 208 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (67.5% of the class), of whom 197 went to firms of 501 or more. 33 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was District Of Columbia with 87 graduates, followed by New York with 75.

University of Virginia has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a public school based in Charlottesville, VA. 1 first-year students left for academic reasons, 0.0% of the class.

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 Virginia 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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