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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Southern University Law Center

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1953
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
147
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.15
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$11,338
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
300
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
40.3%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
68.1%
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 2018

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2018)
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Report year 2018
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 applications748Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission493Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate65.9%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment24215389
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th142 / 144 / 146142 / 144 / 147141 / 143 / 145
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.55 / 2.83 / 3.132.58 / 2.88 / 3.202.42 / 2.75 / 2.99
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 142 · Median 144 · 75th 146
LSAT: published 25th percentile 142, median 144, 75th percentile 146.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.55 · Median 2.83 · 75th 3.13
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.55, median 2.83, 75th percentile 3.13.

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 2018. 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 (2018)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
622
1L
241
2L
228
3L
150
4L
3
J.D. degrees awarded
155

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
7.3%
1L other attrition
3.6%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
1
1L transfers out
11
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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