State Guide · 2 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Arkansas law school requirements
Arkansas has 2 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 153 to 158. Together they took 1,553 completed applications, made 584 offers and filled 289 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
153 to 158
across the state
First-year seats
289
from 1,553 applications
Tuition range
$13,770 to $13,770
full time, non-resident
The 2 ABA-approved Arkansas law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of ArkansasFayetteville | Public | 158 | 3.71 | 26.6% | 135 | $1,304/cr |
| UALR William H. BowenLittle Rock | Public | 153 | 3.41 | 54.9% | 154 | $13,770 |
What the state data shows
University of Arkansas reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 158, with a 3.71 GPA median and a 26.6% acceptance rate on 950 applications. The spread of 5 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Arkansas school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Arkansas's strongest reported median sits 1 points below it.
No school in the state reports a lower rate for residents than for non-residents in this cycle. The lowest published resident tuition belongs to UALR William H. Bowen at $13,770 a year, where the median full-time grant is $7,461.
1 of the 2 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. University of Arkansas reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 80.00% from 120 first-time takers, against a 77.09% 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.