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Boston, Massachusetts

New England Law | Boston

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1969
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
153
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.37
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$62,896
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
451
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
51.4%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
73.9%
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 — 2017 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2018 report)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
58.6%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
78.9%
Difference
-20.29 pts
First-time takers
203
119 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
Massachusetts1057874.3%79.3%-5.01
11 Remaining Jurisdictions421433.3%75.1%-41.79
New York381847.4%83.9%-36.55
New Hampshire18950%76%-25.96

Ultimate bar passage — 2015 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2018 report)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
69.2%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
335
Takers
318
Passers
220

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
202573.9%83.8%
202479.2%83.3%
202371.5%79.2%
202274.5%79.5%
202176.6%79.1%
202078.1%82.6%
201969.9%81.2%
201855.5%77.9%
201758.6%78.9%