State Guide · 2 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Kansas law school requirements
Kansas has 2 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 155 to 162. Together they took 1,721 completed applications, made 713 offers and filled 259 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
155 to 162
across the state
First-year seats
259
from 1,721 applications
The 2 ABA-approved Kansas law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of KansasLawrence | Public | 162 | 3.85 | 39.1% | 122 | $1,094/cr |
| Washburn UniversityTopeka | Public | 155 | 3.68 | 46.4% | 137 | $1,393/cr |
What the state data shows
University of Kansas reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 162, with a 3.85 GPA median and a 39.1% acceptance rate on 1,172 applications. The spread of 7 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Kansas school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Kansas's strongest reported median sits 3 points above it.
No school in the state reports a lower rate for residents than for non-residents in this cycle.
1 of the 2 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. University of Kansas reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 92.17% from 115 first-time takers, against a 80.59% 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.