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Durham, North Carolina

Duke Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1931
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
171
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.91
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$80,100
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
227
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
98.7%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
98.2%
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 — 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
97.7%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
79.3%
Difference
+18.43 pts
First-time takers
217
212 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
New York898696.6%84.1%+12.51
17 Remaining Jurisdictions424197.6%76.8%+20.82
North Carolina262596.2%79.9%+16.24
Texas2424100%77.4%+22.63
District of Columbia2020100%72.1%+27.92
California1616100%69.1%+30.89

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
99.6%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
224
Takers
220
Passers
219

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
202598.2%84.6%
202497.5%82.9%
202394.4%79.3%
202294.4%77.2%
202197.2%80.7%
202097.5%79.7%
201997.7%79.3%
201894.9%74.8%
201797.7%77.3%