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Los Angeles, California

LMU Loyola Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1935
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
163
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.74
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$70,360
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
338
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
85.7%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
79.7%
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 — 2019 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2020 report)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
77.7%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
69.2%
Difference
+8.54 pts
First-time takers
310
241 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
California30823977.6%69.1%+8.49
1 Remaining Jurisdictions22100%84.1%+15.88

Ultimate bar passage — 2017 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2020 report)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
92.7%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
293
Takers
286
Passers
265

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
202579.7%82.7%
202484.2%77.7%
202378.8%72.4%
202279.9%72.3%
202187.9%77%
202088.2%77.9%
201977.7%69.2%
201871.7%60.3%
201774.3%66.3%