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Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Penn State Dickinson Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1931
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
159
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.71
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$60,048
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
215
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
83.4%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
87.6%
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
83.9%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
75.9%
Difference
+7.93 pts
First-time takers
62
52 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
Pennsylvania373183.8%76.8%+6.94
11 Remaining Jurisdictions252184%71.8%+12.18

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
97%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
34
Takers
33
Passers
32

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
202587.6%80.2%
202487%79.7%
202377.5%75.4%
202288.3%73.5%
202181.2%75.3%
202091.7%79.2%
201981.8%78.4%
201883.9%75.9%
201787.7%77.9%