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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 — 2024 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2025 report)
Covers
Report year 2025
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
97.5%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
82.9%
Difference
+14.54 pts
First-time takers
278
271 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 York12211795.9%86.3%+9.60
15 Remaining Jurisdictions4040100%78.5%+21.53
District of Columbia3333100%85%+14.99
California262596.2%77.6%+18.53
Texas2323100%81.5%+18.52
North Carolina222195.5%79.2%+16.27
Illinois1212100%78.6%+21.36

Ultimate bar passage — 2022 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2025 report)
Covers
Report year 2025
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
99.1%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
215
Takers
213
Passers
211

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%