State Guide · 1 ABA School · 509 data 2025
New Hampshire law school requirements
New Hampshire has 1 ABA-approved law school, reporting an LSAT median of 155. Together they took 1,455 completed applications, made 756 offers and filled 248 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
155 to 155
across the state
First-year seats
248
from 1,455 applications
Tuition range
$50,000 to $50,000
full time, non-resident
The 1 ABA-approved New Hampshire law school
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of New Hampshire Franklin PierceConcord | Public | 155 | 3.50 | 52.0% | 248 | $50,000 |
What the state data shows
University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 155, with a 3.50 GPA median and a 52.0% acceptance rate on 1,455 applications. The national median of school medians is 159, so New Hampshire's strongest reported median sits 4 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 University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce at $42,000 a year, where the median full-time grant is $20,000.
1 of the 1 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 79.49% from 156 first-time takers, against a 79.20% 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.