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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvard Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1923
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
174
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.96
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$77,100
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
579
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
93.2%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
97.9%
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 — 2017 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2018 report)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
96.7%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
78.5%
Difference
+18.23 pts
First-time takers
583
564 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 York28427697.2%83.9%+13.26
California978991.8%66.2%+25.56
21 Remaining Jurisdictions696898.6%78.4%+20.19
Massachusetts4444100%79.3%+20.70
District of Columbia3131100%74.6%+25.40
Texas2222100%76.6%+23.43
Illinois201995%79.8%+15.18
Maryland161593.8%66.7%+27.05

Ultimate bar passage — 2015 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2018 report)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
98.4%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
590
Takers
511
Passers
503

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
202597.9%85.2%
202497.9%83.4%
202396.1%79.9%
202298.5%78.8%
202199.4%82%
202098.9%81.4%
201998.9%79.2%
201896.5%75.6%
201796.7%78.5%