State Guide · 2 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Colorado law school requirements
Colorado has 2 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 160 to 164. Together they took 5,672 completed applications, made 1,868 offers and filled 484 first-year seats in 2025. Every number on this page comes from those schools' own ABA Standard 509 reports.
ABA schools
2
1 public, 1 private
LSAT median range
160 to 164
across the state
First-year seats
484
from 5,672 applications
Tuition range
$44,002 to $63,390
full time, non-resident
The 2 ABA-approved Colorado law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of ColoradoBoulder | Public | 164 | 3.81 | 27.6% | 199 | $44,002 |
| University of Denver SturmDenver | Private | 160 | 3.66 | 41.3% | 285 | $63,390 |
What the state data shows
University of Colorado reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 164, with a 3.81 GPA median and a 27.6% acceptance rate on 3,458 applications. The spread of 4 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Colorado school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Colorado's strongest reported median sits 5 points above it.
1 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 Colorado at $35,992 a year, where the median full-time grant is $15,000. Across the state, published non-resident tuition runs from $44,002 to $63,390, a gap of $19,388 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. University of Colorado reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 90.42% from 167 first-time takers, against a 84.93% 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.