New York, New York

Fordham University School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1936
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time and Part-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 168; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.79; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $78,078; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 444; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 85.5%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 90.8%; 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 — 2020 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2021 report)
Covers: Report year 2021
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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School pass rate

90%

Weighted jurisdiction rate

85.3%

Difference

+4.76 pts

First-time takers

381

343 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
Jurisdiction	Takers	Passers	School %	Jurisdiction %	Difference
New York	358	322	89.9%	85.9%	+4.01
6 Remaining Jurisdictions	13	12	92.3%	79.2%	+13.07
New Jersey	10	9	90%	70.6%	+19.36

Ultimate bar passage — 2018 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2021 report)
Covers: Report year 2021
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Ultimate pass rate

96.3%

Within two years of graduation

Graduates

369

Takers

350

Passers

337

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 class	School	Jurisdictions
2025	90.8%	86.8%
2024	93%	85.8%
2023	87.8%	82.4%
2022	90.7%	82.1%
2021	93.7%	85.3%
2020	90%	85.3%
2019	89.4%	83.5%
2018	87.7%	80.6%
2017	90.9%	83.1%