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Newark, New Jersey

Seton Hall University School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1951
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
161
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.71
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$69,660
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
302
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
87%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
87.1%
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
83.2%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
72.4%
Difference
+10.84 pts
First-time takers
167
139 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
New Jersey13711281.8%69.9%+11.86
New York292689.7%83.9%+5.74
1 Remaining Jurisdictions11100%82.6%+17.39

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
95.2%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
194
Takers
187
Passers
178

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
202587.1%74.4%
202487.2%75.7%
202382.2%70.3%
202285.7%71.4%
202189.6%71.9%
202081.6%71.4%
201990.4%77%
201882.3%71.3%
201783.2%72.4%