State Guide · 2 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
New Jersey law school requirements
New Jersey has 2 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 158 to 161. Together they took 7,019 completed applications, made 2,374 offers and filled 791 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
158 to 161
across the state
First-year seats
791
from 7,019 applications
Tuition range
$47,863 to $69,660
full time, non-resident
The 2 ABA-approved New Jersey law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seton Hall UniversityNewark | Private | 161 | 3.71 | 34.3% | 302 | $69,660 |
| Rutgers Law SchoolNewark | Public | 158 | 3.66 | 33.5% | 489 | $47,863 |
What the state data shows
Seton Hall University reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 161, with a 3.71 GPA median and a 34.3% acceptance rate on 2,714 applications. The spread of 3 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one New Jersey school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so New Jersey's strongest reported median sits 2 points above it.
1 of the 2 schools charge residents less than non-residents, so residency status is worth checking before you apply. The lowest published resident tuition belongs to Rutgers Law School at $31,577 a year, where the median full-time grant is $16,000. Across the state, published non-resident tuition runs from $47,863 to $69,660, a gap of $21,797 a year before fees, living costs or scholarship.
1 of the 2 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. Seton Hall University reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 87.21% from 305 first-time takers, against a 75.69% 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.