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Houston, Texas

South Texas College of Law Houston

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1959
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
155
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.41
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$42,960
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
437
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
81.9%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
85.6%
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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2024

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2024)
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Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-timePart-time
Completed applications2,298Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission891Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate38.8%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment39931683
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th151 / 154 / 157151 / 154 / 157151 / 154 / 157
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.04 / 3.35 / 3.573.07 / 3.36 / 3.572.92 / 3.33 / 3.52
Students with GRE scores1147
Students with JD-Next scores000

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 151 · Median 154 · 75th 157
LSAT: published 25th percentile 151, median 154, 75th percentile 157.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.04 · Median 3.35 · 75th 3.57
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.04, median 3.35, 75th percentile 3.57.
GRE Verbal25th 152 · Median 155 · 75th 162
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 152, median 155, 75th percentile 162.
GRE Quantitative25th 145 · Median 151 · 75th 155
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 145, median 151, 75th percentile 155.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2024. 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 (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
1,093
1L
632
2L
237
3L
211
4L
13
J.D. degrees awarded
286

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
3%
1L other attrition
2%
Upper-level academic attrition
1%
Transfers in
4
1L transfers out
15
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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