State Guide · 2 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Wisconsin law school requirements
Wisconsin has 2 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 158 to 167. Together they took 4,591 completed applications, made 941 offers and filled 442 first-year seats in 2025. Every number on this page comes from those schools' own ABA Standard 509 reports.
ABA schools
2
1 public, 1 private
LSAT median range
158 to 167
across the state
First-year seats
442
from 4,591 applications
Tuition range
$51,970 to $53,640
full time, non-resident
The 2 ABA-approved Wisconsin law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of WisconsinMadison | Public | 167 | 3.81 | 19.1% | 224 | $53,640 |
| Marquette UniversityMilwaukee | Private | 158 | 3.70 | 22.1% | 218 | $51,970 |
What the state data shows
University of Wisconsin reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 167, with a 3.81 GPA median and a 19.1% acceptance rate on 2,479 applications. The spread of 9 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Wisconsin school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Wisconsin's strongest reported median sits 8 points above it.
1 of the 2 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 Wisconsin at $36,526 a year, where the median full-time grant is $35,000. Across the state, published non-resident tuition runs from $51,970 to $53,640, a gap of $1,670 a year before fees, living costs or scholarship.
1 of the 2 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. University of Wisconsin reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 80.00% from 5 first-time takers, against a 78.72% 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.