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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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2017

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2017)
Covers
Report year 2017
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll students
Completed applications1,616
Offers of admission709
Acceptance rate43.9%
First-year enrollment208
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th154 / 161 / 163
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.36 / 3.68 / 3.79
Students with GRE scoresNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2017, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 154 · Median 161 · 75th 163
LSAT: published 25th percentile 154, median 161, 75th percentile 163.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.36 · Median 3.68 · 75th 3.79
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.36, median 3.68, 75th percentile 3.79.

The school did not publish full GRE percentiles for this class, so a GRE comparison is not shown. PreLaw Advisor does not convert GRE scores into LSAT equivalents.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2017. Being above or below a published percentile does not determine an admissions decision.

J.D. enrollment

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — JD Enrollment and Ethnicity (2017)
Covers
Report year 2017
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
744
1L
211
2L
283
3L
250
4L
Not reported
J.D. degrees awarded
236

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
Not reported
1L other attrition
Not reported
Upper-level academic attrition
Not reported
Transfers in
42
1L transfers out
0
Transfer GPA median
2.90

Transfer GPA percentiles are only published when a school admits 12 or more transfer students.