St. Paul, Minnesota

Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 2015
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 154; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.29; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $55,300; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 364; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 60.1%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 72%; 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 — 2018 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2019 report)
Covers: Report year 2019
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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School pass rate

70.8%

Weighted jurisdiction rate

77.9%

Difference

-7.14 pts

First-time takers

236

167 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
Jurisdiction	Takers	Passers	School %	Jurisdiction %	Difference
Minnesota	184	133	72.3%	78.3%	-6.01
15 Remaining Jurisdictions	30	17	56.7%	74.7%	-18.07
Wisconsin	22	17	77.3%	77.5%	-0.25

Ultimate bar passage — 2016 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2019 report)
Covers: Report year 2019
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Ultimate pass rate

86.3%

Within two years of graduation

Graduates

297

Takers

269

Passers

232

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 class	School	Jurisdictions
2025	72%	82.9%
2024	71%	81.6%
2023	72.3%	78.8%
2022	71.6%	80.2%
2021	59.6%	78.2%
2020	66.2%	82.3%
2019	69.2%	79.5%
2018	70.8%	77.9%
2017	67.2%	80%