State Guide · 3 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Connecticut law school requirements
Connecticut has 3 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 155 to 174. Together they took 9,346 completed applications, made 1,327 offers and filled 490 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
155 to 174
across the state
First-year seats
490
from 9,346 applications
Tuition range
$56,610 to $76,636
full time, non-resident
The 3 ABA-approved Connecticut law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale Law SchoolNew Haven | Private | 174 | 3.96 | 4.1% | 204 | $76,636 |
| University of ConnecticutHartford | Public | 162 | 3.78 | 20.1% | 151 | $61,396 |
| Quinnipiac UniversityHamden | Private | 155 | 3.65 | 43.1% | 135 | $56,610 |
What the state data shows
Yale Law School reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 174, with a 3.96 GPA median and a 4.1% acceptance rate on 5,562 applications. The spread of 19 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Connecticut school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Connecticut's strongest reported median sits 15 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 Connecticut at $30,354 a year, where the median full-time grant is $15,177. Across the state, published non-resident tuition runs from $56,610 to $76,636, a gap of $20,026 a year before fees, living costs or scholarship.
2 of the 3 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. Yale Law School reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 96.50% from 200 first-time takers, against a 83.57% 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.