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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 — 2022 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2023 report)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
98.5%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
78.8%
Difference
+19.68 pts
First-time takers
586
577 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 York24323998.4%82.7%+15.66
Massachusetts747398.7%81%+17.66
California726995.8%72.2%+23.68
23 Remaining Jurisdictions5959100%73.8%+26.22
Maryland474697.9%76%+21.92
District of Columbia4444100%79.6%+20.38
Texas2828100%75.3%+24.69
Illinois1919100%75%+24.99

Ultimate bar passage — 2020 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2023 report)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
99%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
570
Takers
503
Passers
498

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%