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Waco, Texas

Baylor Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1931
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
164
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.77
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$1,606 / credit
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
165
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
95.5%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
93.7%
2025 graduates

Latest verified values from ABA required disclosures. Each dataset describes a different class, as labelled. The job share is PreLaw Advisor’s arithmetic (full-time, long-term bar-passage-required positions ÷ total graduates), not an ABA-published figure.

First-time bar passage — 2023 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2024 report)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
91.6%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
79%
Difference
+12.58 pts
First-time takers
143
131 passed

The weighted jurisdiction rate is the average first-time pass rate in the jurisdictions where this school’s graduates tested, weighted by the number of takers. It gives context for the school’s own rate.

First-time results by jurisdiction
JurisdictionTakersPassersSchool %Jurisdiction %Difference
Texas13612491.2%79.2%+12.01
7 Remaining Jurisdictions77100%76.2%+23.77

Ultimate bar passage — 2021 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2024 report)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
96.1%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
180
Takers
180
Passers
173

Ultimate passage counts graduates who passed any bar exam within two years of graduating. It is a different measure from first-time passage and covers an earlier graduating class.

First-time passage history

First-time pass rate by graduating class
Graduating classSchoolJurisdictions
202593.7%82.7%
202494.9%81.4%
202391.6%79%
202292%75.3%
202188.1%77.6%
202087.3%75.5%
201990.3%77.3%
201892%73.1%
201791.7%76.8%