Notre Dame, Indiana

Notre Dame Law School

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1925
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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 — 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)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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School pass rate

92.2%

Weighted jurisdiction rate

79.8%

Difference

+12.32 pts

First-time takers

191

176 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
22 Remaining Jurisdictions	67	62	92.5%	77.6%	+14.92
Illinois	46	41	89.1%	78.6%	+10.49
New York	33	33	100%	86.3%	+13.70
Indiana	19	19	100%	77.9%	+22.13
California	13	9	69.2%	77.6%	-8.39
District of Columbia	13	12	92.3%	85%	+7.30

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

99%

Within two years of graduation

Graduates

210

Takers

202

Passers

200

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	89.4%	81.6%
2024	92.2%	79.8%
2023	91.5%	77.5%
2022	92.7%	76.5%
2021	91.7%	77.8%
2020	89%	79.6%
2019	90.2%	76%
2018	87.6%	73.8%
2017	89.3%	75.5%