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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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2024

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications6,128Not applicable
Offers of admission813Not applicable
Acceptance rate13.3%Not applicable
First-year enrollment220220
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th161 / 167 / 168161 / 167 / 168
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.64 / 3.80 / 3.893.64 / 3.80 / 3.89
Students with GRE scores66
Students with JD-Next scores00

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2024, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 161 · Median 167 · 75th 168
LSAT: published 25th percentile 161, median 167, 75th percentile 168.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.64 · Median 3.80 · 75th 3.89
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.64, median 3.80, 75th percentile 3.89.

The school did not publish full GRE percentiles for this class, so a GRE comparison is not shown. PreLaw Advisor does not convert GRE scores into LSAT equivalents.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2024. Being above or below a published percentile does not determine an admissions decision.

J.D. enrollment

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — JD Enrollment and Ethnicity (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
635
1L
221
2L
206
3L
208
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
341

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
0%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
6
1L transfers out
11
Transfer GPA median
3.49

Transfer GPA percentiles are only published when a school admits 12 or more transfer students.