State Guide · 3 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Minnesota law school requirements
Minnesota has 3 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 154 to 171. Together they took 5,855 completed applications, made 2,221 offers and filled 758 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
154 to 171
across the state
First-year seats
758
from 5,855 applications
Tuition range
$50,998 to $61,845
full time, non-resident
The 3 ABA-approved Minnesota law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of MinnesotaSouth Minneapolis | Public | 171 | 3.88 | 26.7% | 228 | $61,845 |
| St Thomas School of Law, University of (Minneapolis)Minneapolis | Private | 159 | 3.72 | 57.6% | 166 | $50,998 |
| Mitchell HamlineSt. Paul | Private | 154 | 3.29 | 51.4% | 364 | $55,300 |
What the state data shows
University of Minnesota reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 171, with a 3.88 GPA median and a 26.7% acceptance rate on 3,405 applications. The spread of 17 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Minnesota school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Minnesota's strongest reported median sits 12 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 St Thomas School of Law, University of (Minneapolis) at $50,998 a year, where the median full-time grant is $26,865. Across the state, published non-resident tuition runs from $50,998 to $61,845, a gap of $10,847 a year before fees, living costs or scholarship.
1 of the 3 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. University of Minnesota reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 94.09% from 237 first-time takers, against a 83.36% 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.