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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.

First-time bar passage — 2019 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2020 report)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
91.6%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
80.7%
Difference
+10.87 pts
First-time takers
250
229 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
Massachusetts13712792.7%82.1%+10.65
New York656193.9%84.1%+9.73
14 Remaining Jurisdictions363288.9%72.7%+16.22
California12975%69.1%+5.89

Ultimate bar passage — 2017 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2020 report)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
95.3%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
215
Takers
211
Passers
201

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
202594.9%84.4%
202492.3%83.3%
202387.7%79.4%
202291.9%79.2%
202193.5%80.3%
202094.5%83%
201991.6%80.7%
201891.5%77.2%
201787.9%79.3%