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Boston, Massachusetts

Boston University School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1925
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
170
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.88
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$69,870
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
238
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
92.1%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
94.9%
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.

Published class percentiles — fall 2025

LSAT25th 164 · Median 170 · 75th 171
LSAT: published 25th percentile 164, median 170, 75th percentile 171.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.71 · Median 3.88 · 75th 3.93
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.71, median 3.88, 75th percentile 3.93.

Published percentiles describe the class that enrolled; they are not an admissions prediction and PreLaw Advisor does not estimate anyone’s chances. Sign in to compare your own numbers privately.

Median LSAT

1702025

2017: 1652018: 1662019: 1662020: 1672021: 1692022: 1702023: 1702024: 1702025: 170
Acceptance rate

12.1%2025

2017: 29.4%2018: 25.9%2019: 23.1%2020: 24.9%2021: 18.3%2022: 16.3%2023: 17.8%2024: 20.6%2025: 12.1%
Applications

7,8922025

2017: 5,4502018: 5,8762019: 5,8122020: 5,7192021: 8,2212022: 7,6612023: 7,2972024: 6,2072025: 7,892
First-time bar passage

94.9%2026

2018: 87.9%2019: 91.5%2020: 91.6%2021: 94.5%2022: 93.5%2023: 91.9%2024: 87.7%2025: 92.3%2026: 94.9%

Each line fits its own range, so it shows direction over time and cannot be compared with another school’s. Admissions figures use the ABA report year (the fall entering class); bar passage uses the report year, which covers the previous year’s graduates.