State Guide · 1 ABA School · 509 data 2025
New Mexico law school requirements
New Mexico has 1 ABA-approved law school, reporting an LSAT median of 157. Together they took 640 completed applications, made 265 offers and filled 108 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
157 to 157
across the state
First-year seats
108
from 640 applications
Tuition range
$43,192 to $43,192
full time, non-resident
The 1 ABA-approved New Mexico law school
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of New MexicoAlbuquerque | Public | 157 | 3.56 | 41.4% | 108 | $43,192 |
What the state data shows
University of New Mexico reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 157, with a 3.56 GPA median and a 41.4% acceptance rate on 640 applications. The national median of school medians is 159, so New Mexico's strongest reported median sits 2 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 Mexico at $19,474 a year, where the median full-time grant is $10,000.
1 of the 1 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. University of New Mexico reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 85.71% from 112 first-time takers, against a 81.20% 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.