Vermont Law and Graduate School: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Vermont Law and Graduate School

Vermont Law and Graduate School received 1,553 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 909 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 58.5%. 289 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 31.8%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 290 students: 132 full time and 158 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 704.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 152, with a 25th percentile of 148 and a 75th of 157. That is 7 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 168 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 2.81 at the 25th percentile, 3.25 at the median and 3.61 at the 75th. 5 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $55,382 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $1,075. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $23,952. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $80,409 for one year, or $241,227 across three, before any grant. 550 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 99% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $28,000. 42 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 87 of 134 passed, a rate of 64.93%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 76.45%, so the school ran 11.52 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 90 of 130 graduates (69.2%) held a job requiring bar admission. 3 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (2.3% of the class), of whom 3 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was Vermont with 33 graduates, followed by New York with 14.

Vermont Law and Graduate School has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1972. It is a private school based in South Royalton, VT. 9 first-year students left for academic reasons, 4.0% of the class. 1 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

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 Vermont Law and Graduate 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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