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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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2023

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2023)
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Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications7,297Not applicable
Offers of admission1,300Not applicable
Acceptance rate17.8%Not applicable
First-year enrollment231231
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th164 / 170 / 171164 / 170 / 171
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.70 / 3.86 / 3.913.70 / 3.86 / 3.91
Students with GRE scores1212
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2023, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 164 · Median 170 · 75th 171
LSAT: published 25th percentile 164, median 170, 75th percentile 171.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.70 · Median 3.86 · 75th 3.91
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.70, median 3.86, 75th percentile 3.91.
GRE Verbal25th 158 · Median 160 · 75th 166
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 158, median 160, 75th percentile 166.
GRE Quantitative25th 151 · Median 159 · 75th 166
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 151, median 159, 75th percentile 166.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2023. 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 (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
744
1L
231
2L
213
3L
300
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
243

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
2%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
9
1L transfers out
15
Transfer GPA median
3.49

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