State Guide · 9 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Ohio law school requirements
Ohio has 9 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 149 to 168. Together they took 12,978 completed applications, made 4,726 offers and filled 1,478 first-year seats in 2025. Every number on this page comes from those schools' own ABA Standard 509 reports.
ABA schools
9
5 public, 4 private
LSAT median range
149 to 168
across the state
First-year seats
1,478
from 12,978 applications
Tuition range
$22,359 to $64,600
full time, non-resident
The 9 ABA-approved Ohio law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moritz College of LawColumbus | Public | 168 | 3.91 | 24.6% | 159 | $50,902 |
| Case Western Reserve UniversityCleveland | Private | 162 | 3.76 | 34.8% | 180 | $64,600 |
| College of Law - University of CincinnatiCincinnati | Public | 159 | 3.80 | 32.7% | 139 | $29,010 |
| University of DaytonDayton | Private | 157 | 3.60 | 30.7% | 168 | $1,380/cr |
| Cleveland State UniversityCleveland | Public | 155 | 3.50 | 34.4% | 195 | $29,866 |
| University of AkronAkron | Public | 154 | 3.51 | 58.5% | 203 | $22,359 |
| University of ToledoToledo | Public | 153 | 3.53 | 52.5% | 125 | $26,446 |
| Capital UniversityColumbus | Private | 151 | 3.44 | 65.9% | 180 | $45,066 |
| Ohio Northern University, PettitAda | Private | 149 | 3.34 | 32.0% | 129 | $33,900 |
What the state data shows
Moritz College of Law reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 168, with a 3.91 GPA median and a 24.6% acceptance rate on 2,291 applications. The spread of 19 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Ohio school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Ohio's strongest reported median sits 9 points above it.
3 of the 9 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 Akron at $22,359 a year, where the median full-time grant is $9,000. Across the state, published non-resident tuition runs from $22,359 to $64,600, a gap of $42,241 a year before fees, living costs or scholarship.
4 of the 9 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. Moritz College of Law reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 91.95% from 174 first-time takers, against a 80.32% 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.