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 — 2023-2024

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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	$11,338	$8,844
Full-time · nonresident	$11,338	$22,444
Part-time · resident	$10,484	$7,530
Part-time · nonresident	$10,484	$21,130

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$24,182
Living off campus$24,182
Living at home$24,182

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$11,338
Mandatory fees$8,844
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$24,182

PreLaw Advisor total$44,364

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 (2023–2024 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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	949	605	344
Receiving grants	400	318	82
% receiving grants	42%	53%	24%
Less than half tuition	246	181	65
Half to full tuition	136	124	12
Full tuition	2	1	1
More than full tuition	16	12	4
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$9,500	$3,500
Median grant	Not applicable	$11,500	$6,668
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$13,000	$12,600

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports offering conditional scholarships (awards that can be reduced or eliminated, e.g. for grades).

Entering 2022-2023132 received · 77 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-2022113 received · 54 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2020-2021155 received · 28 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.