University of Wisconsin Law School: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin received 2,479 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 474 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 19.1%. 220 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 46.4%. The full first-year class came to 224 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 642.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 167, with a 25th percentile of 161 and a 75th of 169. That is 8 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 34 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.61 at the 25th percentile, 3.81 at the median and 3.93 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $36,526 for residents and $53,640 for non-residents, a gap of $17,114 a year. Mandatory fees add $1,660. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $25,056. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $80,356 for one year, or $241,068 across three, before any grant. 631 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 94% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $35,000. 128 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 4 of 5 passed, a rate of 80.00%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 78.72%, so the school ran 1.28 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 233 of 255 graduates (91.4%) held a job requiring bar admission. 49 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (19.2% of the class), of whom 33 went to firms of 501 or more. 9 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Wisconsin with 141 graduates, followed by Illinois with 32.

University of Wisconsin has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a public school based in Madison, WI. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year. 9 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Wisconsin has 2 ABA-approved law schools. The Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin Law School 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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