Baton Rouge, Louisiana

LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1926
Institution type: Public
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2024-2025

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Tuition and fees by program and residency
Program	Tuition	Fees
Full-time · resident	$19,750	$3,915
Full-time · nonresident	$19,750	$19,355
Full-time · per credit (resident)	$823	$3,915

Living expenses (school estimates)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$24,740
Living off campus$26,602
Living at home$22,080

Annual estimates for single students, as reported by the school. Books, transportation and insurance are not itemized in ABA disclosures.

Estimated annual cost (calculation)

Tuition$19,750
Mandatory fees$3,915
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$26,602

PreLaw Advisor total$50,267

Sum of the school-published figures above. It is not the school’s official cost of attendance and assumes no scholarship.

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Grants & scholarships (2024–2025 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Grant recipients and amounts
Measure	All	Full-time	Part-time
Total students	614	614	Not applicable
Receiving grants	530	530	Not applicable
% receiving grants	86%	86%	Not applicable
Less than half tuition	253	253	Not applicable
Half to full tuition	266	266	Not applicable
Full tuition	11	11	Not applicable
More than full tuition	0	0	Not applicable
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$8,000	Not applicable
Median grant	Not applicable	$14,497	Not applicable
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$19,750	Not applicable

The ABA publishes grant percentiles by full-time/part-time status only. These describe past awards; they do not indicate what any applicant will receive.

Conditional scholarships

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports offering conditional scholarships (awards that can be reduced or eliminated, e.g. for grades).

Entering 2023-2024175 received · 41 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2022-2023178 received · 59 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-2022229 received · 68 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.