State Guide · 2 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Arizona law school requirements
Arizona has 2 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 163 to 165. Together they took 6,391 completed applications, made 1,409 offers and filled 376 first-year seats in 2025. Every number on this page comes from those schools' own ABA Standard 509 reports.
ABA schools
2
2 public, 0 private
LSAT median range
163 to 165
across the state
First-year seats
376
from 6,391 applications
Tuition range
$31,360 to $52,099
full time, non-resident
The 2 ABA-approved Arizona law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State UniversityPhoenix | Public | 165 | 3.91 | 19.8% | 266 | $52,099 |
| University of Arizona James E. RogersTucson | Public | 163 | 3.78 | 27.9% | 110 | $31,360 |
What the state data shows
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 165, with a 3.91 GPA median and a 19.8% acceptance rate on 4,610 applications. The spread of 2 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Arizona school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Arizona's strongest reported median sits 6 points above it.
2 of the 2 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 Arizona James E. Rogers at $26,490 a year, where the median full-time grant is $25,235. Across the state, published non-resident tuition runs from $31,360 to $52,099, a gap of $20,739 a year before fees, living costs or scholarship.
1 of the 2 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 87.54% from 289 first-time takers, against a 75.03% 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.