State Guide · 1 ABA School · 509 data 2025
West Virginia law school requirements
West Virginia has 1 ABA-approved law school, reporting an LSAT median of 155. Together they took 590 completed applications, made 238 offers and filled 114 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
155 to 155
across the state
First-year seats
114
from 590 applications
Tuition range
$45,666 to $45,666
full time, non-resident
The 1 ABA-approved West Virginia law school
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia UniversityMorgantown | Public | 155 | 3.65 | 40.3% | 114 | $45,666 |
What the state data shows
West Virginia University reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 155, with a 3.65 GPA median and a 40.3% acceptance rate on 590 applications. The national median of school medians is 159, so West Virginia's strongest reported median sits 4 points below it.
1 of the 1 schools charge residents less than non-residents, so residency status is worth checking before you apply. The lowest published resident tuition belongs to West Virginia University at $26,370 a year, where the median full-time grant is $17,500.
1 of the 1 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. West Virginia University reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 78.30% from 106 first-time takers, against a 76.46% 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.