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New Orleans, Louisiana

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1931
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
154
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.47
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$55,024
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
223
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
80.8%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
71.2%
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 — 2021 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2022 report)
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Report year 2022
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
80.1%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
75.1%
Difference
+5.06 pts
First-time takers
161
129 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
Louisiana1079790.7%74.1%+16.58
19 Remaining Jurisdictions382360.5%77%-16.44
Texas16956.3%77.5%-21.28

Ultimate bar passage — 2019 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2022 report)
Covers
Report year 2022
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
87.6%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
145
Takers
137
Passers
120

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
202571.2%79.7%
202469%76%
202366.3%72.7%
202271.4%73.6%
202180.1%75.1%
202046.7%71.2%
201964.8%74.5%
201876.1%74.8%
201774.1%76%