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.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2017-2018

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
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	$15,802	Not reported
Full-time · nonresident	$28,402	Not reported
Part-time · resident	$13,958	Not reported
Part-time · nonresident	$26,558	Not reported

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$19,821
Living off campus$19,821
Living at home$19,821

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$15,802
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$19,821

PreLaw Advisor total$35,623

Not included (not published): Mandatory fees.

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 (2017–2018 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
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	560	394	166
Receiving grants	33	33	0
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	12	12	0
Half to full tuition	21	21	0
Full tuition	0	0	0
More than full tuition	0	0	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$1,960	Not reported
Median grant	Not applicable	$3,920	Not reported
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$5,880	Not reported

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2016-201732 received · 6 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2015-201626 received · 12 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2014-201522 received · 16 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.