State Guide · 3 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Oregon law school requirements
Oregon has 3 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 154 to 161. Together they took 3,841 completed applications, made 2,164 offers and filled 501 first-year seats in 2025. Every number on this page comes from those schools' own ABA Standard 509 reports.
ABA schools
3
1 public, 2 private
LSAT median range
154 to 161
across the state
First-year seats
501
from 3,841 applications
Tuition range
$56,600 to $61,434
full time, non-resident
The 3 ABA-approved Oregon law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis & ClarkPortland | Private | 161 | 3.59 | 54.7% | 176 | $61,434 |
| University of OregonEugene | Public | 160 | 3.62 | 55.0% | 186 | $59,495 |
| Willamette UniversitySalem | Private | 154 | 3.48 | 61.4% | 139 | $56,600 |
What the state data shows
Lewis & Clark reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 161, with a 3.59 GPA median and a 54.7% acceptance rate on 1,133 applications. The spread of 7 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Oregon school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Oregon's strongest reported median sits 2 points above it.
1 of the 3 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 Oregon at $47,240 a year, where the median full-time grant is $25,000. Across the state, published non-resident tuition runs from $56,600 to $61,434, a gap of $4,834 a year before fees, living costs or scholarship.
2 of the 3 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. University of Oregon reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 85.06% from 154 first-time takers, against a 76.32% 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.