University of Dayton Scholarship Calculator
Enter your LSAT and GPA to see where you stand against University of Dayton's admitted class and the grant range it actually publishes.
University of Dayton reports a median grant of $33,000 per year for students receiving financial aid, and 102% of its students receive aid, with 6% of aid recipients covering full tuition or more. This school reports tuition per credit hour rather than an annual total, and the median award is worth about 24 credit hours of tuition at its published rate of $1,380 per credit hour.
Enter your LSAT and/or GPA to see where you stand against this school's admitted class.
How this school's aid is distributed
University of Dayton splits its aid across four tiers. The share of students in each tier is what the school reports to the ABA — it is not a projection.
What three years would actually cost you
University of Dayton reports tuition per credit hour rather than an annual total, so no three-year cost figure is estimated for it. Its published rate is $1,380 per credit hour.
No annual total is estimated for this school because it reports tuition per credit hour. Converting that to a three-year figure would require assuming how many credits a student takes — a guess that would make the number wrong rather than merely imprecise. See what this school does publish →
Is this school worth your score?
This school is not in the comparison set for this measure — it reports tuition per credit hour or is missing one of the two figures needed.
Is University of Dayton getting more competitive?
Applications to University of Dayton rose from 636 for the 2015 entering class to 1,611 for 2025, while the class enrolled 167 students — so there were 9.6 applicants per place, against 7.1 in 2015. Between 2023 and 2025 that figure moved from 7.9 to 9.6, and competition for each place has tightened.
| Entering class | Applications | Offers | Enrolled | Applicants per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 636 | 371 | 90 | 7.1 |
| 2021 | 1,448 | 373 | 129 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 1,289 | 365 | 129 | 10 |
| 2023 | 1,073 | 368 | 135 | 7.9 |
| 2024 | 1,110 | 418 | 129 | 8.6 |
| 2025 | 1,611 | 494 | 167 | 9.6 |
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 Dayton compares to schools at the same level
These are the schools with the closest median LSAT to University of Dayton'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.
| School | Median grant / yr | Grant vs. selectivity | Three-year net cost | % receiving aid | Applicants per place | Competition, last 3 years | Conditional retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Dayton (this school) | $33,000 | — | — | 102% | 9.6 | tightening | 80.9% |
| New York Law School | $40,000 | 0 pt | $171,849 | 85% | 10.3 | tightening | 46.0% |
| Hofstra University | $35,793 | 0 pt | $213,306 | 84% | 9.5 | tightening | 46.8% |
| Duquesne University | $30,000 | 0 pt | $163,308 | 96% | 7.8 | tightening | — |
| Southwestern Law School | $29,166 | 0 pt | $211,221 excludes fees | 72% | 7.9 | tightening | 51.9% |
| Saint Louis University | $25,000 | 0 pt | $171,906 | 97% | 4.3 | level | — |
| Mercer University | $20,000 | 0 pt | $145,113 | 87% | 7.8 | tightening | — |
| Louisiana State University | $19,750 | 0 pt | $92,847 | 78% | 5.5 | level | 79.1% |
| The University of Tulsa | $12,500 | 0 pt | $154,008 | 99% | 4.3 | easing | — |
| University of Louisville | $12,000 | 0 pt | $115,977 | 75% | 4 | easing | — |
| The University of New Mexico | $10,000 | 0 pt | $102,402 | 60% | 6.3 | tightening | 85.4% |
| Buffalo, University at | $7,500 | 0 pt | $141,192 | 51% | 6 | level | — |
| The University of Mississippi | $7,000 | 0 pt | $120,447 | 87% | 6 | level | — |
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 Dayton is in . It admits 30.7% of applicants, and 102% 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 Dayton financial aid breakdown — coverage, award size, all four tiers and conditional outcomes
- University of Dayton ABA 509 report — every figure from the disclosure, section by section
- University of Dayton cost of attendance — three-year total cost, ranked against every school
- University of Dayton admissions data — acceptance, LSAT, GPA, bar passage and class size
- All-school scholarship estimator — compare every ABA law school at once
Common questions
How much scholarship does University of Dayton give?
University of Dayton reports a median grant of $33,000 per year for students receiving financial aid, and 102% of its students receive aid, with 6% of aid recipients covering full tuition or more. This school reports tuition per credit hour rather than an annual total, and the median award is worth about 24 credit hours of tuition at its published rate of $1,380 per credit hour.
What LSAT and GPA does University of Dayton admit?
University of Dayton admitted students with LSAT scores between 154 and 160, with a median of 157. Its 25th-percentile undergraduate GPA is 3.31 and its 75th-percentile GPA is 3.87, with a median of 3.6.
Does University of Dayton reduce conditional scholarships?
University of Dayton reports no conditional scholarships, or does not disclose how its conditional awards were reduced after review.
What do the position labels mean?
Above the median means your LSAT is above the school's 75th-percentile LSAT, so you sit in the top quarter of its entering class. Competitive means your LSAT falls between the school's median and 75th-percentile LSAT, which is the range where most admitted students sit. Below the median means your LSAT is between the school's 25th and 50th-percentile LSAT, inside the bottom half of its entering class. Below the 25th percentile means your LSAT is under the bottom quarter of the school's admitted class, and its published aid figures describe students who were admitted rather than your case.
Is University of Dayton keeping more conditional scholarships than before?
University of Dayton does not report enough years of conditional scholarship data to show a trend.
Is University of Dayton becoming more competitive?
Applications to University of Dayton rose from 636 for the 2015 entering class to 1,611 for 2025, while the class enrolled 167 students — so there were 9.6 applicants per place, against 7.1 in 2015. Between 2023 and 2025 that figure moved from 7.9 to 9.6, and competition for each place has tightened.
Is University of Dayton worth its score compared with other law schools?
This school is not in the comparison set for this measure — it reports tuition per credit hour or is missing one of the two figures needed.
Is this an estimate of my offer?
No, and it cannot be. The ABA Standard 509 disclosures publish each school's overall aid distribution, not a mapping from LSAT scores to award amounts. This page shows you University of Dayton's real published figures and where your scores land against its admitted class. A tool that prints a single dollar figure for your score is running a model, and the error is invisible to you.