ABA Website Updates Data on Fall 2023 Law School Admissions, Tuition and Other Matters:
Information about fall 2023 admissions and other matters reported by American Bar Association-approved law schools to the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is now publicly available. The information is required to be made public under Standard 509 of the Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools.
The spreadsheets, explanatory information and the ABA's database of Standard 509 reports, as they are known, are available at https://www.abarequireddisclosures.org. Some of this information has been collected and summarized on the section’s website in its Statistics section under 2023 Standard 509 Data Overview. It shows that total J.D. enrollment for 2023 was up by .11% from the previous year. First-year enrollment declined by 174 students, a decrease of .46%. …
The material released today covers admissions, tuition and living costs, financial aid, class and faculty demographics and other areas. The data can be easily searched and sorted, allowing for school-by-school comparisons and analysis and should be useful to prospective law students, pre-law advisors, media outlets and others who study and write about legal education.
Bar passage data for 2023 bar examination outcomes are expected to be released in March 2024. Employment outcomes for the class of 2023, measuring law graduate employment on March 15, 2024 (approximately 10 months after spring graduation), are expected to be released in April 2024. For now, both are on schedule.
2023 Standard 509 Data Overview
- 2023 JD/Non-JD Enrollment Data
- 2022 v. 2023 Change in JD Enrollment
- 2023 1L JD Applicant/First-Year Class Data
- 2022 v. 2023 Change in First-Year Enrollment
- 2023 First-Year Enrollment by Gender & Race/Ethnicity
- 2023 First-Year Enrollment by Gender & Race/Ethnicity (Aggregate)
