State Guide · 2 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Nebraska law school requirements
Nebraska has 2 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 153 to 160. Together they took 1,911 completed applications, made 966 offers and filled 316 first-year seats in 2025. Every number on this page comes from those schools' own ABA Standard 509 reports.
ABA schools
2
1 public, 1 private
LSAT median range
153 to 160
across the state
First-year seats
316
from 1,911 applications
The 2 ABA-approved Nebraska law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of NebraskaLincoln | Public | 160 | 3.81 | 40.1% | 154 | $1,229/cr |
| Creighton School of LawOmaha | Private | 153 | 3.51 | 64.5% | 162 | $1,542/cr |
What the state data shows
University of Nebraska reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 160, with a 3.81 GPA median and a 40.1% acceptance rate on 1,096 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 Nebraska school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Nebraska's strongest reported median sits 1 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 Nebraska reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 90.54% from 148 first-time takers, against a 83.11% 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.