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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1926
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
157
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.74
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$19,750
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
230
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
83.8%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
85.4%
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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2018

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2018)
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Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications899Not applicable
Offers of admission553Not applicable
Acceptance rate61.5%Not applicable
First-year enrollment206206
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th150 / 154 / 157150 / 154 / 157
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.16 / 3.46 / 3.733.16 / 3.46 / 3.73
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2018, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 150 · Median 154 · 75th 157
LSAT: published 25th percentile 150, median 154, 75th percentile 157.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.16 · Median 3.46 · 75th 3.73
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.16, median 3.46, 75th percentile 3.73.

The school did not publish full GRE percentiles for this class, so a GRE comparison is not shown. PreLaw Advisor does not convert GRE scores into LSAT equivalents.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2018. Being above or below a published percentile does not determine an admissions decision.

J.D. enrollment

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — JD Enrollment and Ethnicity (2018)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
560
1L
207
2L
176
3L
177
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
165

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
1.7%
1L other attrition
3.9%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
3
1L transfers out
3
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

Transfer GPA percentiles are only published when a school admits 12 or more transfer students.