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Ada, Ohio

Ohio Northern University, Pettit College of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1948
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
149
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.34
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$33,900
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
129
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
83.7%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
56.4%
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)
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Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
62%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
76.3%
Difference
-14.30 pts
First-time takers
50
31 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
11 Remaining Jurisdictions221359.1%73.4%-14.26
Ohio181266.7%77.2%-10.55
Pennsylvania10660%76.8%-16.84

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
85.1%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
72
Takers
67
Passers
57

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
202556.4%79.5%
202468.4%79.7%
202350.9%75.3%
202273.2%77.2%
202170.7%78%
202065.9%81%
201984.4%75.9%
201862%76.3%
201776.2%76.1%