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University of Minnesota Law School

Minneapolis, MN

#22 in U.S. News & World Report Best Law Schools (2026-27)

Published admissions data for the Fall 2025 entering class, an estimate of where your own numbers land and the ABA employment outcomes it reports.

Admissions profile

Median LSAT
171
Median GPA
3.88
Admit rate
26.7%
Entering class
228
Applications
3,405
Admitted
909

Sources: Minnesota Law — By the Numbers (Class Profile); University of Minnesota Law School — 2025 Standard 509 Information Report · Fall 2025 entering class

How competitive is Minnesota Law?

Reported for the Fall 2025 entering class.

For the Fall 2025 entering class, Minnesota Law reported a median LSAT of 171 and a median undergraduate GPA of 3.88.

Its published LSAT band runs 166 / 171 / 173: the 25th percentile sits five points below the median and the 75th sits two points above it.

Minnesota Law admitted 909 applicants from 3,405 applications, an admit rate of 26.7%.

228 students enrolled.

What LSAT and GPA do you need for Minnesota Law?

The ABA reports where the entering class landed — three percentiles, not a cut-off. No score is required, and none guarantees anything.

LSAT

Published LSAT: 25th 166 · median 171 · 75th 173.

GPA

Published GPA: 25th 3.62 · median 3.88 · 75th 3.95.

Percentiles: American Bar Association Standard 509 Information Report · Fall 2025 entering class

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Class of 2025 employment outcomes

Reported by the school to the American Bar Association, about ten months after graduation.

  • Employed in a professional position95.9%213 of 222 graduates

    Bar-admission-required + J.D.-advantage + professional-position + law-school-funded jobs / total graduates, about ten months after graduation. Excludes the ABA's non-professional 'Other Position', 'Undeterminable', and 'Start Date After' rows, so it reads lower than a school's headline employment figure.

    ABA Employment Summary

  • Bar admission required91.4%203 of 222 graduates

    Jobs requiring bar admission / total graduates. The ABA's Bar Admission Required/Anticipated row only — J.D. Advantage is a different measure and is NOT added to it.

    ABA Employment Summary

  • Firms of 501+ attorneys17.6%39 of 222 graduates

    Jobs at law firms of 501+ attorneys / total graduates. Exactly the ABA's 501+ band — not 251+, not 100+, not a private-practice share.

    ABA Employment Summary

  • Federal clerkship3.2%7 of 222 graduates

    Federal clerkships / total graduates. Excludes state, local, territorial, tribal and international clerkships.

    ABA Employment Summary

Share of the whole graduating class, counting every position the ABA reports (full- or part-time, long- or short-term), measured about ten months after graduation.

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Application deadlines

We haven't re-verified this school's current-cycle deadlines yet, so none are published here. Check the school's own admissions page for dates.

Essay prompts

We haven't confirmed this school's current-cycle essay prompts in the school's own words yet. Only prompts we can quote exactly are published here.

Sources and methodology

Last verified September 1, 2026.

Where each figure comes from

Admissions figures
Percentiles, admit rate and class size as reported to the American Bar Association under Standard 509, or published by the school in its own class profile. The source for each figure is linked beside it.
Deadlines and essay prompts
Taken from the school's own current-cycle application instructions and quoted exactly. A date or a prompt we have not re-verified for this cycle is withheld rather than carried over from last year.
Employment outcomes
Counts from the school's ABA Employment Summary for the class year shown, over one denominator: every graduate. The share is those two counts divided, and both are printed so it can be checked.
Chance estimate
Litigator One's own model, not school-published data and not a prediction of a decision. It reads your two numbers against this school's published percentiles and its overall admit rate.

Cited on this page

  1. Minnesota Law — By the Numbers (Class Profile) — University of Minnesota Law School
  2. University of Minnesota Law School — 2025 Standard 509 Information Report — American Bar Association
  3. Best Law Schools (2026-27) — U.S. News & World Report

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