State Guide · 1 ABA School · 509 data 2025
Hawaii law school requirements
Hawaii has 1 ABA-approved law school, reporting an LSAT median of 158. Together they took 1,654 completed applications, made 434 offers and filled 140 first-year seats in 2025. Every number on this page comes from those schools' own ABA Standard 509 reports.
ABA schools
1
1 public, 0 private
LSAT median range
158 to 158
across the state
First-year seats
140
from 1,654 applications
Tuition range
$46,728 to $46,728
full time, non-resident
The 1 ABA-approved Hawaii law school
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William S. RichardsonHonolulu | Public | 158 | 3.62 | 26.2% | 140 | $46,728 |
What the state data shows
William S. Richardson reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 158, with a 3.62 GPA median and a 26.2% acceptance rate on 1,654 applications. The national median of school medians is 159, so Hawaii's strongest reported median sits 1 points below it.
1 of the 1 schools charge residents less than non-residents, so residency status is worth checking before you apply. The lowest published resident tuition belongs to William S. Richardson at $23,304 a year, where the median full-time grant is $7,000.
1 of the 1 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. William S. Richardson reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 76.92% from 91 first-time takers, against a 74.94% 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.