State Guide · 3 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Puerto Rico law school requirements
Puerto Rico has 3 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 139 to 152. Together they took 1,250 completed applications, made 628 offers and filled 488 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
139 to 152
across the state
First-year seats
488
from 1,250 applications
Tuition range
$16,585 to $16,585
full time, non-resident
The 3 ABA-approved Puerto Rico law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Puerto RicoSan Juan | Public | 152 | 3.77 | 39.7% | 122 | $305/cr |
| Inter American University of Puerto Rico -San Juan | Private | 144 | 3.39 | 50.9% | 205 | $16,585 |
| Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto RicoPonce | Private | 139 | 3.33 | 61.5% | 161 | $540/cr |
What the state data shows
University of Puerto Rico reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 152, with a 3.77 GPA median and a 39.7% acceptance rate on 383 applications. The spread of 13 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Puerto Rico school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Puerto Rico's strongest reported median sits 7 points below it.
No school in the state reports a lower rate for residents than for non-residents in this cycle. The lowest published resident tuition belongs to Inter American University of Puerto Rico - at $16,585 a year, where the median full-time grant is $2,379.
2 of the 3 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. University of Puerto Rico reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 58.27% from 127 first-time takers, against a 53.17% 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.