Waco, Texas

Baylor Law School

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1931
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2018-2019

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2018)
Covers: Report year 2018
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Tuition and fees by program and residency
Program	Tuition	Fees
Full-time · resident	$20,807	Not reported
Full-time · nonresident	$20,807	Not reported

Living expenses (school estimates)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2018)
Covers: Report year 2018
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$18,116
Living off campus$19,532
Living at home$8,879

Annual estimates for single students, as reported by the school. Books, transportation and insurance are not itemized in ABA disclosures.

Estimated annual cost (calculation)

Tuition$20,807
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$19,532

PreLaw Advisor total$40,339

Not included (not published): Mandatory fees.

Sum of the school-published figures above. It is not the school’s official cost of attendance and assumes no scholarship.

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Grants & scholarships (2018–2019 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2018)
Covers: Report year 2018
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Grant recipients and amounts
Measure	All	Full-time	Part-time
Total students	424	424	Not applicable
Receiving grants	325	325	Not applicable
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not applicable
Less than half tuition	140	140	Not applicable
Half to full tuition	163	163	Not applicable
Full tuition	8	8	Not applicable
More than full tuition	14	14	Not applicable
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$9,000	Not applicable
Median grant	Not applicable	$32,000	Not applicable
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$55,760	Not applicable

The ABA publishes grant percentiles by full-time/part-time status only. These describe past awards; they do not indicate what any applicant will receive.

Conditional scholarships

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2018)
Covers: Report year 2018
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2017-2018143 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2016-2017126 received · 18 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2015-201699 received · 19 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.