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Rutgers law school acceptance rate was 33.5% for the 2025 reporting year, being 1444 offers on 4305 completed applications, on which Rutgers enrolled 489 students, from Rutgers's own ABA Standard 509 report. Rutgers publishes an LSAT median of 158 and a GPA median of 3.69. Verified July 2026.
Rutgers published an acceptance rate of 33.5% for the 2025 reporting year in its own ABA Standard 509 report, being 1444 offers on 4305 completed applications. Rutgers enrolled 489 matriculants from those 1444 offers, from the same 509 report, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
FigurePublished valueSourceCompleted applications4305https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdfOffers of admission1444https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdfAcceptance rate33.5%https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdfMatriculants489https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdfLSAT 25th / median / 75th155 / 158 / 161https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdfGPA 25th / median / 75th3.41 / 3.69 / 3.86https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdfTuition$31,577 resident / $47,863 non-residenthttps://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdfTotal cost of attendancenot in our verified sethttps://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdfMedian grant$16,000https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdfShare receiving a grant86%https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdfEmployed at ten months94.3%https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdfClass of 2025 graduates368https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdf
Rutgers is the largest school in this group by a wide margin, enrolling 489 matriculants against 232 at Temple Beasley and Villanova Widger, which is part of why its rate sits where it does. Verified July 2026.
The gap between offers and enrolment is where yield lives. Verified July 2026.
An acceptance rate is a ratio over a self-selected pool rather than a difficulty score, so read it beside the bands below rather than instead of them. Verified July 2026.
Rutgers publishes an LSAT band of 155 at the 25th percentile, 158 at the median and 161 at the 75th, all from its own 2025 509 report. That is a spread of 6 points across the middle half of the admitted class, which is the range your own score has to land inside. Verified July 2026.
Rutgers publishes the lowest band of the five schools in this batch, 155 to 161, which makes it the most reachable of them on the LSAT and the one where GPA carries the most weight. retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
A median means about half the admitted class scored below it, from Rutgers's own 509 (https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026, so a score at the median is a live application rather than a marginal one. Verified July 2026.
LSAC's own guidance is that a score is an estimate with a standard error of about 2.6 scaled points (https://www.lsac.org/lsat-interpretive-guide/2019-2020), retrieved July 31, 2026, so treat your own score as a band against Rutgers's band. Verified July 2026.
Rutgers publishes a GPA band of 3.41 at the 25th percentile, 3.69 at the median and 3.86 at the 75th, from the same 509 report. The GPA spread at Rutgers runs 0.45 points from the 25th to the 75th, our arithmetic on Rutgers's own published quartiles, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
A wide GPA spread beside a narrow LSAT spread is the signature of a school that will take a lower GPA when the LSAT carries the file. At Rutgers the LSAT spread is 6 points, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
That is an inference from quartiles rather than a statement about how Rutgers's committee behaves, and this page is not going to dress it up as more than that. Verified July 2026.
Rutgers is a target for anyone inside its published band and a reach below the 25th percentile, and no published source can tell you more precisely than that. Place your own numbers against 155 to 161 on the LSAT and 3.41 to 3.86 on GPA, from Rutgers's own 509, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Above both medians you are the candidate Rutgers would pay for, and its published median grant of $16,000 reaching 86% of students is the evidence for that (https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Below the 25th on both, the application needs something the index cannot see, and no 509 publishes what that is at any school. Verified July 2026.
Rutgers published 94.3% employment at the ten-month date for a class of 368 graduates, from its own reporting as recorded in our data sheet. Rutgers's market breakdown and large-firm share are not in our verified set, so this page publishes neither. Verified July 2026.
Rutgers' market breakdown and large-firm share are recorded as not pulled in our data sheet, and its 509 prints no single total cost of attendance either, so this page publishes none of the three. retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
The employment figure covers all employment types rather than large-firm work alone, from Rutgers's own reporting as recorded in our data sheet, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Ten months is an early snapshot of a job held on one day. It is the standard because it is comparable across schools, not because it is complete. Verified July 2026.
Federal borrowing for professional students is capped at $50,000 a year from July 1, 2026 per Harvard's summary of the statutory changes, so the number that decides a Rutgers offer is what sits above that line. Grant reach that broad is the lever that decides whether you cross the cap at all. Verified July 2026.
Rutgers's 509 prints no single total cost of attendance and our sheet records none, retrieved July 31, 2026, so this page publishes no total for it. Verified July 2026.
The annual federal ceiling is $50,000 and Grad PLUS is phased out for new borrowers from July 1, 2026, from Harvard's summary of the statutory changes (https://sfs.harvard.edu/changes-federal-student-loans), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Rutgers publishes a median grant of $16,000 reaching 86% of students, from its own 509 report (https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Rutgers is not one of the 31 schools in our master Admissions Playbook, so this page carries no committee texture for it and says so rather than inventing any. The Playbook records splitter posture, yield protection, scholarship posture and what the essay must do for 31 schools, retrieved July 31, 2026, and Rutgers is outside that set. Verified July 2026.
Everything on this page therefore comes from Rutgers's own 2025 ABA Standard 509 report as recorded in LOVARE_SCHOOL_DATA_SHEET.xlsx (https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Where we hold nothing for Rutgers, this page names the absence rather than filling it. That is the difference between a page built on disclosures and one built on impressions. Verified July 2026.
Our verified set holds 7 fields we have not read for Rutgers, and this page names them rather than filling them from a ranking or a prep site. Those live in Rutgers's own ABA employment summary and its own admissions pages rather than in its 509, which is why they sit outside a 509-derived spine. Verified July 2026.
The gaps are the large-firm placement share, the federal clerkship share, the market breakdown, a total cost of attendance, early decision terms, an interview policy and a personal statement prompt and limit, each recorded as not pulled in LOVARE_SCHOOL_DATA_SHEET.xlsx, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Read them from Rutgers directly before you decide. A page that guessed at them would look more complete and be worth less. Verified July 2026.
Place your own LSAT and GPA against Rutgers's published quartiles, then place your likely award against its published grant reach. Those two comparisons decide far more than the acceptance rate does, and both of them come from the same 509 report. Verified July 2026.
The acceptance rate of 33.5% tells you about Rutgers's applicant pool rather than about your odds (https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
The grant reach of 86% tells you whether Rutgers spends broadly or narrowly, and broad reach is worth more to a below-median applicant than a large median reaching few (https://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Then price the residual against the $50,000 federal annual cap (https://sfs.harvard.edu/changes-federal-student-loans), retrieved July 31, 2026, because after July 2026 that residual is private borrowing rather than federal. Verified July 2026.
Every figure on this Rutgers admissions data page carries a Verified July 2026 stamp because a dated stamp is the only honest way to publish a number that moves. Each source below was retrieved in July 2026 and is linked in full rather than named vaguely, so nothing here is modelled, averaged or inferred.
What it supportsSourceRutgers 2025 ABA Standard 509 reporthttps://law.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2026-05/Std509InfoReport_2025%20%285-14-26%29.pdfFederal loan caps effective July 1 2026https://sfs.harvard.edu/changes-federal-student-loansLSAC on the standard error of measurementhttps://www.lsac.org/lsat-interpretive-guide/2019-2020
33.5% for the 2025 reporting year, being 1444 offers on 4305 completed applications, from Rutgers's own ABA Standard 509 report. Verified July 2026.
Rutgers publishes a band of 155 to 161 with a median of 158, from its own 2025 509 report. A median means about half the class scored below it. Verified July 2026.
Rutgers publishes 3.41 to 3.86 with a median of 3.69, from the same report. Verified July 2026.
Rutgers publishes a median grant of $16,000 reaching 86% of students. No 509 publishes grant size by LSAT or GPA band at any school. Verified July 2026.
94.3% employed at ten months for a class of 368. The large-firm share and market breakdown are not in our verified set and this page publishes none. Verified July 2026.
The acceptance rate is the least useful number on this page. Your own score against Rutgers's published quartiles is the one that decides anything. The Lovare Diagnostic takes about fifteen minutes and returns your own numbers against published school data rather than a single probability, and it is free.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026