State Guide · 1 ABA School · 509 data 2025
Rhode Island law school requirements
Rhode Island has 1 ABA-approved law school, reporting an LSAT median of 150. Together they took 1,003 completed applications, made 615 offers and filled 189 first-year seats in 2025. Every number on this page comes from those schools' own ABA Standard 509 reports.
ABA schools
1
0 public, 1 private
LSAT median range
150 to 150
across the state
First-year seats
189
from 1,003 applications
Tuition range
$47,400 to $47,400
full time, non-resident
The 1 ABA-approved Rhode Island law school
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roger Williams UniversityBristol | Private | 150 | 3.43 | 61.3% | 189 | $47,400 |
What the state data shows
Roger Williams University reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 150, with a 3.43 GPA median and a 61.3% acceptance rate on 1,003 applications. The national median of school medians is 159, so Rhode Island's strongest reported median sits 9 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 Roger Williams University at $47,400 a year, where the median full-time grant is $28,000.
0 of the 1 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. Roger Williams University reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 57.06% from 177 first-time takers, against a 76.37% 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.