Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvard Law School

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1923
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

J.D. program formats

Full-time J.D.: Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
Part-time J.D.: Not on the ABA Council’s part-time list.
Distance-education J.D.: Not on the ABA Council’s distance-education J.D. list.

Formats come from the ABA Council’s published lists, not from the school’s marketing. What each format means

Programs published by the school

Joint and dual degrees

A J.D. earned together with a second degree, usually in less time than the two would take separately. Each pairing is specific to the school that offers it.

J.D./Ph.D.School page for J.D./Ph.D. (opens in a new tab)

Clinics and field placements

Supervised legal work with real clients or in real legal settings, for credit.

Food Law and Policy ClinicSchool page for Food Law and Policy Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Harvard Immigration and Refugee ClinicSchool page for Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Veterans Law and Disability Benefits ClinicSchool page for Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic (opens in a new tab)

Centers and institutes

Research and program centers that organize a school's teaching, scholarship and events in a field.

Center for Labor and a Just EconomySchool page for Center for Labor and a Just Economy (opens in a new tab)
Center on the Legal ProfessionSchool page for Center on the Legal Profession (opens in a new tab)
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and JusticeSchool page for Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice (opens in a new tab)
Institute for Global Law and PolicySchool page for Institute for Global Law and Policy (opens in a new tab)
Institute to End Mass IncarcerationSchool page for Institute to End Mass Incarceration (opens in a new tab)
John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and BusinessSchool page for John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business (opens in a new tab)
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and BioethicsSchool page for The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics (opens in a new tab)

Advanced law degrees

Degrees for people who already hold a first degree in law, in the United States or abroad.

These are not J.D. programs. The ABA Council approves a school’s J.D. program; it does not approve or accredit these degrees.

LL.M. programSchool page for LL.M. program (opens in a new tab)

12 programs read from Harvard Law School’s own website and reviewed before publication, most recently verified Sep 2026. The list covers structured academic offerings, not student organizations, and may not be complete.

Curriculum & faculty (2025 ABA report)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Curricular Offerings (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Course titles beyond 1L

458

Clinic positions available

807

791 filled

Field placements filled

481

Simulation course seats

1,143

Co-curricular offerings

Full-time faculty

203

365 total faculty

Clinic and simulation seat counts are only mapped from report layouts that define them unambiguously (2025 onward).