University of California-Irvine Scholarship Calculator

Enter your LSAT and GPA to see where you stand against University of California-Irvine's admitted class and the grant range it actually publishes.

University of California-Irvine reports a median grant of $25,000 per year for students receiving financial aid, and 95% of its students receive aid, and none of its aid reaches full tuition — every award covers part of the tuition. The median award covers about 42% of annual tuition, so the school still costs roughly $34,080 per year in tuition after aid.

What three years would actually cost you

At University of California-Irvine, three years of tuition, housing and fees cost $261,222 before aid. A grant of $17,500 to $35,000 a year would leave you paying between $156,222 and $208,722 over three years. The lower figure assumes the larger award applies every year, so treat it as a floor rather than a bill.

The net figure applies this school's median award to every year and every student, so it is a floor rather than a bill — it excludes students who receive nothing, tuition increases, and living costs beyond what this school publishes. See the full cost breakdown →

Is this school worth your score?

University of California-Irvine sits in the 83rd percentile of law schools by median LSAT but the 47th percentile by median grant, so it gives less aid than its selectivity suggests. Among the 164 schools with both figures reported, that is a gap of 36 percentile points.

Selectivity and generosity are two different things. A school can sit high on one and low on the other — and that gap is the part worth knowing before you decide where to apply.

The comparison set is the 164 schools that report an annual tuition figure and a median grant. Schools reporting tuition per credit hour are excluded because there is no annual aid figure to line up against. Percentiles are rank positions, not estimates.

Where this school sits against the extremes

The most and least generous schools relative to their own selectivity, for reference:

Is University of California-Irvine getting more competitive?

Applications to University of California-Irvine rose from 1,554 for the 2015 entering class to 3,720 for 2025, while the class enrolled 188 students — so there were 19.8 applicants per place, against 12.6 in 2015. Between 2023 and 2025 that figure moved from 18 to 19.8, and competition for each place has tightened.

Applicants per place is applications divided by the number who actually enrolled. It moves with how selective the school is, not with how many offers it sends — a school can issue more offers without becoming harder to get into. The summary above judges the direction over the three most recent entering classes, not across the whole span: a single unusual year in the middle of eleven is not a trend.

How University of California-Irvine compares to schools at the same level

These are the schools with the closest median LSAT to University of California-Irvine's. The table sorts by median grant, because that is usually what the comparison turns on once the academic profile is close enough — and the three-year net cost column shows what each of those grants actually leaves you paying.

Applicants per place is applications divided by students who enrolled. The competition column compares the most recent three entering classes rather than the full span, because a single year in the middle of that span is not a trend. Conditional retention is the share of students who kept a need-based conditional scholarship after year one review.

What this school's numbers mean

University of California-Irvine is in . It admits 14.9% of applicants, and 95% of its students receive financial aid.

The four tiers above come straight from the school's 509 disclosure. They matter because the same coverage figure can mean very different things — a school where most awards are half-tuition grants and one where most are full-tuition grants offer students something quite different.

Related pages

• University of California-Irvine financial aid breakdown — coverage, award size, all four tiers and conditional outcomes
• University of California-Irvine ABA 509 report — every figure from the disclosure, section by section
• University of California-Irvine cost of attendance — three-year total cost, ranked against every school
• University of California-Irvine admissions data — acceptance, LSAT, GPA, bar passage and class size
• All-school scholarship estimator — compare every ABA law school at once