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Carbondale, Illinois

Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1974
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
149
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.38
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$547 / credit
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
133
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
73%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
74.2%
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 — 2020 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2021 report)
Covers
Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
58.3%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
81.5%
Difference
-23.13 pts
First-time takers
84
49 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
Illinois422457.1%81%-23.85
Missouri211571.4%85.3%-13.82
12 Remaining Jurisdictions211047.6%79.2%-31.62

Ultimate bar passage — 2018 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2021 report)
Covers
Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
82.7%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
106
Takers
104
Passers
86

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
202574.2%81.7%
202459.5%79.2%
202365.7%78.7%
202253.4%75%
202159.4%78.7%
202058.3%81.5%
201958.8%76.9%
201855.8%77.8%
201760.4%79.9%