State Guide · 2 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Delaware law school requirements
Delaware has 2 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 149 to 152. Together they took 1,590 completed applications, made 928 offers and filled 352 first-year seats in 2025. Every number on this page comes from those schools' own ABA Standard 509 reports.
ABA schools
2
0 public, 2 private
LSAT median range
149 to 152
across the state
First-year seats
352
from 1,590 applications
The 2 ABA-approved Delaware law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widener University DelawareWilmington | Private | 152 | 3.33 | 59.7% | 277 | $1,950/cr |
| Wilmington UniversityWilmington | Private | 149 | 3.13 | 52.0% | 75 | $838/cr |
What the state data shows
Widener University Delaware reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 152, with a 3.33 GPA median and a 59.7% acceptance rate on 1,317 applications. The spread of 3 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Delaware school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Delaware's strongest reported median sits 7 points below it.
No school in the state reports a lower rate for residents than for non-residents in this cycle.
0 of the 1 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. Widener University Delaware reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 66.30% from 181 first-time takers, against a 76.55% 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.