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.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

J.D. program formats

Full-time J.D.: Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
Part-time J.D.: Offered. The school is on the ABA Council’s list of approved part-time programs.
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

Clinics and field placements

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

Stuart H. Smith Law ClinicSchool page for Stuart H. Smith Law 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 on Environment, Land and LawSchool page for Center on Environment, Land and Law (opens in a new tab)
Gillis Long Poverty Law CenterSchool page for Gillis Long Poverty Law Center (opens in a new tab)
Marsiglia Institute of JusticeSchool page for Marsiglia Institute of Justice (opens in a new tab)

Journals and advocacy programs

Student-edited publications and competitive advocacy programs.

Advocacy CenterSchool page for Advocacy Center (opens in a new tab)
Danny and Mary Becnel Trial Advocacy ProgramSchool page for Danny and Mary Becnel Trial Advocacy Program (opens in a new tab)
International Advocacy ProgramSchool page for International Advocacy Program (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. in Environmental LawSchool page for LL.M. in Environmental Law (opens in a new tab)
LL.M. in U.S. LawSchool page for LL.M. in U.S. Law (opens in a new tab)
LL.M. programSchool page for LL.M. program (opens in a new tab)

10 programs read from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law’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

128

Clinic positions available

173

145 filled

Field placements filled

Simulation course seats

977

Co-curricular offerings

Full-time faculty

89 total faculty

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