Pennsylvania · Private · ABA Standard 509, 2025 cycle
CohortsAdmissions: entering class 2025Employment: class of 2024, ~10 mo. outBar: class of 2024, first-time
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⚠ Pending review. Some figures are missing from this school’s public ABA record and are being sourced & verified: enrollment 2021. How we handle data gaps.
Widener University Delaware Law School is a private law school in Pennsylvania. In the most recent ABA Standard 509 cycle it reported a 66.3% first-time bar passage rate (state average 76.5%). 90.8% of graduates landed full-time, long-term JD-required or JD-advantage jobs, and 3.9% joined large firms of 251+ attorneys. Resident tuition is $56,550 per year; a median grant of $32,000 brings median net tuition to about $24,550. The median LSAT is 152 with a 59.7% acceptance rate.
These shares count where every employed graduate landed, by sector and firm size, across all job types; they can total more than the full-time long-term (FTLT) employment headline, which counts only the stricter full-time, long-term, JD-required or JD-advantage subset.
Bar passage · first-time
This school66.3%
State avg76.5%
first-time -10.2 pts vs state · 2-yr ultimate 80.4% · class of 2025 first-time 75.9% (reported early 2026) · Different cohort than the admissions class above.
Admissions · 25 / 50 / 75
LSATmedian 152
149154
uGPAmedian 3.33
2.953.60
Applications to offers to enrolled
Applied1,317
Offered786
Enrolled 1L277
Offer rate 60% · yield 35%.
Grant distribution
No grant 0.7%Under half 45.3%Half to full 52.6%Full 0.7%Stipend 0.6%
Demographics
Women 53%Men 47%
White
494
Black
122
Hispanic
82
Asian
28
Two or more
28
Other / unreported
53
Cost detail
Resident tuition
$56,550
Non-resident
$56,550
Mandatory fees
—
Living estimate
$25,720
Median grant
$32,000
Grant 25 / 75
$25,000 / $35,000
Cond. schol. loss
—
Faculty & market
Total faculty
103
Full-time faculty
32
Faculty of color
14
Total JD enrollment
807
Graduates
206
Mean attorney salary · state
$150,780
Trajectory
Trajectory since 2011
LSAT · 25-75 band
LSAT scoreunchanged since 2011
Middle-50% LSAT band by entering class.
uGPA · 25-75 band
Undergraduate GPAup 0.21 since 2011
Middle-50% uGPA band by entering class.
First-time bar passage
First-time bar passage ratedown 22% since 2011
First-time bar passage rate by year.
Full-time resident tuition
Resident tuitionup $20k since 2011
Sticker resident tuition by year.
Total JD enrollment
Students enrolleddown 140 since 2011
Total JD enrollment by year.
Admissions
Admissions
LSAT (25 / 50 / 75)
149 / 152 / 154
uGPA (25 / 50 / 75)
2.95 / 3.33 / 3.60
Acceptance rate
59.7%
Applications received
1,317
Offers extended
786
1L enrollment
277
Total JD enrollment
807
GRE-only takers
0
1L attrition (academic / other)
11 / 5
Transfers in / out
0 / 2
Cost
Cost & scholarships
Resident tuition
$56,550
Non-resident tuition
$56,550
Mandatory fees
—
Living-expense estimate
$25,720
Median grant
$32,000
Grant 25 / 75 percentile
$25,000 / $35,000
No-grant share
0.7%
< half-tuition grants
45.3%
Half-to-full grants
52.6%
Full-tuition grants
0.7%
Above-full grants (stipend)
0.6%
Conditional-scholarship loss rate
—
Part-time JD
Part-time 1L enrollment
45
PT LSAT (25 / 50 / 75)
149 / 151 / 154
PT uGPA (25 / 50 / 75)
2.84 / 3.28 / 3.53
Part-time tuition
$1,950 per credit
Part-time JD figures, most recent ABA 509 cycle. Tuition is reported per credit; annual cost depends on the part-time load taken.
Bar passage
Bar passage
First-Time Bar (2024 cohort)
66.3%
Two-Year Ultimate Bar
80.4%
State average (same exam)
76.5%
Difference vs. state
-10.2 pts
Different cohorts: first-time bar passage reflects graduates who entered law school about three years before the current admissions class shown above. Read the two as separate snapshots, not a single pipeline.
What is the first-time bar passage rate at Widener University Delaware Law School?
Widener University Delaware Law School reported a 66.3% first-time bar passage rate in the most recent ABA Standard 509 disclosure, versus a 76.5% state average.
How much does Widener University Delaware Law School cost?
Resident tuition at Widener University Delaware Law School is $56,550 per year (about $169,650 over three years). The median grant is $32,000, bringing median net tuition to roughly $24,550 per year.
What LSAT and GPA do you need for Widener University Delaware Law School?
The median (50th-percentile) LSAT at Widener University Delaware Law School is 152 and the median GPA is 3.33; the acceptance rate is 59.7%.
What are the job outcomes at Widener University Delaware Law School?
90.8% of Widener University Delaware Law School graduates held full-time, long-term JD-required or JD-advantage jobs about ten months after graduation. 3.9% joined large firms of 251+ attorneys. 6.3% were still seeking employment.
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Data from the ABA Standard 509 disclosures, self-reported by law schools and not guaranteed (raw data may have errors or omissions). State attorney-salary context: U.S. BLS OEWS 2024 (SOC 23-1011); cost-of-living: U.S. BEA Regional Price Parities. How the data is sourced & validated: Methodology. Unfamiliar with a term (FTLT, net tuition, bimodal)? Glossary. Copyright basis & permitted use: Terms.