ABA 509 DATA BY STATE, 2025
Law Schools in Alaska: LSAT, GPA, Cost, and Jobs (2025)
A student in Anchorage who wants to go to law school without leaving home runs into a wall fast: Alaska has 0 ABA-accredited law schools. There's no median LSAT to chase, no in-state tuition break to bank on. Every Alaskan applicant is applying out of state, full stop.
Every ABA law school in Alaska
Ranked by median LSAT, highest first. Every school's own page has the full 25th/50th/75th breakdown, cost, and job outcomes.
No ABA-accredited law school currently files a 509 report from this state.
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Reading the Alaska market
Alaska is the honest answer here, not a hedge. There is no ABA-accredited law school anywhere in the state, so there's no local median LSAT, no in-state tuition discount, and no home-state acceptance rate to compare yourself against. Anyone in Alaska who wants a JD is applying to schools in other states from day one.
That changes the calculus in a way worth saying plainly. Without an in-state option, there's no reason to hold your LSAT score down to match a local school's median, and no reason to assume a nearby state's flagship will go easy on you because you're from out of state. Public law schools in neighboring states like Washington and Oregon still weight residency for tuition purposes, so an out-of-state applicant from Alaska pays the same non-resident sticker as anyone else applying cold.
The practical move for an Alaskan applicant is to treat the whole West Coast and Pacific Northwest as the local market and compare schools the same way anyone else does: median LSAT and GPA against your own numbers, sticker price against the discount rate the school actually hands out, and full-time, long-term placement against where you want to end up practicing. None of that changes because you're starting from Alaska. It just means the search starts wider on day one instead of with a hometown safety school already picked out.
Run your numbers through the calculator against schools in Washington, Oregon, or wherever you're actually willing to move, and grab the free cheat sheet while you're prepping. Starting from zero in-state options isn't a disadvantage once you stop looking for one that isn't there.
FAQ
How many ABA-accredited law schools are in Alaska?
Zero. Alaska has no ABA-accredited law school, so every Alaskan applicant applies out of state.
What's the easiest law school to get into in Alaska?
There isn't one, because there's no law school in Alaska at all. The closest options are in neighboring states like Washington and Oregon, and none of them offer Alaska residents an in-state break.
What's the cheapest law school in Alaska?
There's no in-state option, so there's no in-state price to point to. Alaskan applicants pay the same out-of-state or non-resident tuition as anyone else applying to a school outside their home state.
Which Alaska law school has the best job placement?
None, since Alaska has no law school to report a placement rate for. Compare schools in the states you're actually willing to attend using their published full-time, long-term placement numbers instead.
Is it worth going to law school in Alaska if I don't plan to practice there?
The question doesn't apply the way it does in other states, since there's no law school in Alaska to attend in the first place. Every Alaskan applicant is already choosing a school in another state, so the real question is cost and placement at whichever school you pick, the same calculation anyone from anywhere runs.
Source: ABA Standard 509 Information Reports, 2015 to 2025, via LSAT Unplugged's 509 master. Verify against each school's own filing before relying on it. Last updated 2026-10-08.
