UC Hastings Law School is a law school located in San Francisco, California. The school was ranked 82 in 2024 by USNWR. Annual enrollment for UC Hastings Law School is approximately 379.
Admissions website: https://www.uchastings.edu/admissions/
Admissions email: admissions@uchastings.edu
Admissions phone: (415) 565-4623
Previous year ABA 509 data | |||
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Percentiles | 25 | 50 | 75 |
LSAT | 157 | 160 | 162 |
GPA | 3.4 | 3.59 | 3.74 |
Miscellaneous | Count | Percentile |
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# Applications | 3899 | 86 |
# Admissions offers | 1205 | - |
Class size | 379 | 95 |
% Accepted | 30.9% | 75 |
% Yield | 29.5% | 50 |
During the 2024 application cycle, 3,899 people applied and 1,205 were offered admission.
University of California (Hastings) has a 1L class size of 379, and yield of 29.54%. 356 out of 1,205 applicants who were offered admission accepted, meaning that 29.54% of the people who were offered admission ended up attending the school.
The 1L class at University of California (Hastings) has a median LSAT of 160. The 25th percentile LSAT is 157 and the 75th percentile LSAT is 162.
The median GPA is 3.59. The 25th percentile GPA is 3.4 and the 75th percentile GPA is 3.74.
LSD has stats for 508 applicants for the 2023-2024 application cycle.
The graphs show applicant results plotted against GPA and LSAT. The dotted lines on the graphs represent the 25/50/75th percentiles reported by the school in their ABA 509 report from the previous year.
Each data point represents an LSD user that shared their application results for the benefit of future applicants.
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*The following data belongs to previous years.
In 2024, tuition was $55,207 and the annual cost of attending was $84,869 (tuition plus living expenses).
Cost of Attendance (CoA) is the estimated total amount you will have to spend every year to go to school. Unlike tuition, CoA includes expenses like rent, food, and insurance.
70.9% of University of California (Hastings) graduates pass the bar on their first try.
Established in 1878 as the original law department of the University of California, UC Hastings is the oldest law school in California and the first law school established west of the Rocky Mountains. UC Hastings’ legacy of producing highly skilled practitioners of the bench and bar is a matter of record within the legal profession.
Location
UC Hastings’ location is one of its greatest assets. Few law schools, if any, provide the variety of legal, judicial, political, and entrepreneurial entities within such close proximity of their classrooms, giving Hastings students a relevancy to their legal education that is usually hard to achieve on a college or university campus.
The law school’s location provides the opportunity to study the law in the very forum where it is practiced and determined. Situated in the heart of San Francisco, on the border of the city’s Civic Center and Tenderloin neighborhoods, the law school occupies three buildings on McAllister Street. The Civic Center is the legal epicenter of the American West, with four major courthouses, as well as San Francisco’s City Hall, the San Francisco Federal Building, and United Nations Plaza concentrated within a four-block radius of the law school. Many of San Francisco’s law firms are situated in the Financial District, located just two stops away from UC Hastings via the city’s extensive public transportation system. San Francisco is also widely regarded as the technology hub of the United States. Twitter’s world headquarters, for instance, is a short walk from the law school’s campus and many other tech companies and start-ups, such as Zynga and Airbnb, operate in the nearby South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood.