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Notre Dame, Indiana

Notre Dame Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1925
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
170
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.89
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$73,430
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
185
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
93.3%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
89.4%
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.

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
87.6%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
73.8%
Difference
+13.85 pts
First-time takers
202
177 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
24 Remaining Jurisdictions817187.7%72.3%+15.39
Illinois484389.6%76.2%+13.35
New York272592.6%81.3%+11.29
California231669.6%60.3%+9.23
Pennsylvania1212100%76.8%+23.16
Indiana111090.9%73.3%+17.66

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
94%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
172
Takers
167
Passers
157

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
202589.4%81.6%
202492.2%79.8%
202391.5%77.5%
202292.7%76.5%
202191.7%77.8%
202089%79.6%
201990.2%76%
201887.6%73.8%
201789.3%75.5%