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Dallas, Texas

SMU Dedman School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1927
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
167
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.81
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$60,844
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
254
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
94.7%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
97.8%
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.

Published class percentiles — fall 2025

LSAT25th 163 · Median 167 · 75th 168
LSAT: published 25th percentile 163, median 167, 75th percentile 168.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.52 · Median 3.81 · 75th 3.92
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.52, median 3.81, 75th percentile 3.92.

Published percentiles describe the class that enrolled; they are not an admissions prediction and PreLaw Advisor does not estimate anyone’s chances. Sign in to compare your own numbers privately.

Over the years on file

Median LSAT

1672025

2017: 1612018: 1612019: 1612020: 1622021: 1632022: 1642023: 1642024: 1652025: 167
Acceptance rate

24.6%2025

2017: 43.9%2018: 47.2%2019: 47.4%2020: 40.8%2021: 33.4%2022: 33.9%2023: 32.7%2024: 30.4%2025: 24.6%
Applications

3,0382025

2017: 1,6162018: 1,7272019: 1,7572020: 1,8472021: 2,3342022: 2,2532023: 2,1752024: 2,5402025: 3,038
First-time bar passage

97.8%2026

2018: 84.0%2019: 84.8%2020: 86.5%2021: 85.2%2022: 87.0%2023: 85.3%2024: 84.9%2025: 90.2%2026: 97.8%

Each line fits its own range, so it shows direction over time and cannot be compared with another school’s. Admissions figures use the ABA report year (the fall entering class); bar passage uses the report year, which covers the previous year’s graduates.