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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 — 2025 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2026 report)
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Report year 2026
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
72%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
82.9%
Difference
-10.98 pts
First-time takers
328
236 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
Minnesota15713284.1%87%-2.94
38 Remaining Jurisdictions1217562%77.8%-15.85
Texas18844.4%82.7%-38.23
Wisconsin1212100%86.7%+13.33
Arizona10660%76.5%-16.46
California10330%82.7%-52.67

Ultimate bar passage — 2023 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2026 report)
Covers
Report year 2026
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
83.1%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
320
Takers
301
Passers
250

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%