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Newton, Massachusetts

Boston College Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1932
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
168
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.83
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$72,380
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
219
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
92.5%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
96.2%
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 — 2020 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2021 report)
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Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
93.7%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
82.5%
Difference
+11.17 pts
First-time takers
237
222 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
Massachusetts14213796.5%84.5%+12.01
18 Remaining Jurisdictions424197.6%78.4%+19.19
California211571.4%77.9%-6.43
New York211885.7%85.9%-0.22
New Jersey1111100%70.6%+29.36

Ultimate bar passage — 2018 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2021 report)
Covers
Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
95.5%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
226
Takers
222
Passers
212

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
202596.2%85.3%
202493.8%83.6%
202395.9%79.5%
202291.8%80.3%
202194.1%80.7%
202093.7%82.5%
201991.5%81%
201887.6%78.3%
201788.6%79.1%