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 — 2024-2025

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
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	$9,344
Full-time · nonresident	$11,338	$22,944
Part-time · resident	$10,484	$8,030
Part-time · nonresident	$10,484	$21,630

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$29,592
Living off campus$29,592
Living at home$29,592

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$9,344
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$29,592

PreLaw Advisor total$50,274

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 (2024–2025 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
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	873	641	232
Receiving grants	335	303	32
% receiving grants	38%	47%	14%
Less than half tuition	206	181	25
Half to full tuition	117	112	5
Full tuition	0	0	0
More than full tuition	12	10	2
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$9,375	$2,875
Median grant	Not applicable	$11,800	$10,062
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$13,025	$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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
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 2023-2024126 received · 68 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2022-2023132 received · 77 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-2022113 received · 54 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.