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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.
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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 — 2024 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2025 report)
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Report year 2025
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
71%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
81.6%
Difference
-10.63 pts
First-time takers
379
269 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
Minnesota19616383.2%85%-1.80
33 Remaining Jurisdictions1157060.9%77.7%-16.80
Texas301653.3%81.5%-28.15
Florida14535.7%72.4%-36.70
California13430.8%77.6%-46.85
Wisconsin1111100%81.2%+18.81

Ultimate bar passage — 2022 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2025 report)
Covers
Report year 2025
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
85%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
333
Takers
307
Passers
261

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
202572%82.9%
202471%81.6%
202372.3%78.8%
202271.6%80.2%
202159.6%78.2%
202066.2%82.3%
201969.2%79.5%
201870.8%77.9%
201767.2%80%