Dallas, Texas

SMU Dedman School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1927
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2022-2023

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2022)
Covers: Report year 2022
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Tuition and fees by program and residency
Program	Tuition	Fees
Full-time · resident	$54,090	$6,968
Full-time · nonresident	$54,090	$6,968

Living expenses (school estimates)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2022)
Covers: Report year 2022
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$21,226
Living off campus$28,507
Living at home$5,176

Annual estimates for single students, as reported by the school. Books, transportation and insurance are not itemized in ABA disclosures.

Estimated annual cost (calculation)

Tuition$54,090
Mandatory fees$6,968
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$28,507

PreLaw Advisor total$89,565

Sum of the school-published figures above. It is not the school’s official cost of attendance and assumes no scholarship.

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Grants & scholarships (2022–2023 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2022)
Covers: Report year 2022
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Grant recipients and amounts
Measure	All	Full-time	Part-time
Total students	719	719	Not applicable
Receiving grants	689	689	Not applicable
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not applicable
Less than half tuition	506	506	Not applicable
Half to full tuition	158	158	Not applicable
Full tuition	6	6	Not applicable
More than full tuition	19	19	Not applicable
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$16,000	Not applicable
Median grant	Not applicable	$25,000	Not applicable
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$28,000	Not applicable

The ABA publishes grant percentiles by full-time/part-time status only. These describe past awards; they do not indicate what any applicant will receive.

Conditional scholarships

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2022)
Covers: Report year 2022
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2019-20205 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2018-20198 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2017-20186 received · 1 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.