State Guide · 3 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Alabama law school requirements
Alabama has 3 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 150 to 167. Together they took 3,293 completed applications, made 1,235 offers and filled 477 first-year seats in 2025. Every number on this page comes from those schools' own ABA Standard 509 reports.
ABA schools
3
1 public, 2 private
LSAT median range
150 to 167
across the state
First-year seats
477
from 3,293 applications
Tuition range
$39,900 to $48,100
full time, non-resident
The 3 ABA-approved Alabama law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of AlabamaTuscaloosa | Public | 167 | 3.97 | 25.6% | 140 | $48,100 |
| Samford University CumberlandBirmingham | Private | 156 | 3.63 | 49.0% | 170 | $46,334 |
| Faulkner University, Thomas Goode JonesMontgomery | Private | 150 | 3.33 | 53.9% | 167 | $39,900 |
What the state data shows
University of Alabama reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 167, with a 3.97 GPA median and a 25.6% acceptance rate on 1,748 applications. The spread of 17 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Alabama school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Alabama's strongest reported median sits 8 points above it.
1 of the 3 schools charge residents less than non-residents, so residency status is worth checking before you apply. The lowest published resident tuition belongs to University of Alabama at $24,980 a year, where the median full-time grant is $21,500. Across the state, published non-resident tuition runs from $39,900 to $48,100, a gap of $8,200 a year before fees, living costs or scholarship.
1 of the 3 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. University of Alabama reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 91.39% from 151 first-time takers, against a 80.44% jurisdiction average. Bar admission is granted state by state, so the jurisdiction you intend to practise in matters as much as the school.
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Data: ABA Standard 509 Information Report (2025), published for consumer disclosure, retrieved from the ABA Required Disclosures portal on 2026-09-01, with bar passage figures from the same portal's Bar Passage Outcomes report for the class of 2024. Restated in our own structure; no ABA document or file is reproduced here.