State Guide · 1 ABA School · 509 data 2025
North Dakota law school requirements
North Dakota has 1 ABA-approved law school, reporting an LSAT median of 151. Together they took 401 completed applications, made 253 offers and filled 97 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
151 to 151
across the state
First-year seats
97
from 401 applications
The 1 ABA-approved North Dakota law school
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of North DakotaGrand Forks | Public | 151 | 3.48 | 63.1% | 97 | $1,181/cr |
What the state data shows
University of North Dakota reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 151, with a 3.48 GPA median and a 63.1% acceptance rate on 401 applications. The national median of school medians is 159, so North Dakota's strongest reported median sits 8 points below it.
No school in the state reports a lower rate for residents than for non-residents in this cycle.
0 of the 1 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. University of North Dakota reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 68.35% from 79 first-time takers, against a 73.32% 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.