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Los Angeles, California

Southwestern Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1970
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
157
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.51
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$63,160
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
459
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
78.6%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
72.1%
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.

Published class percentiles — fall 2025

LSAT25th 154 · Median 157 · 75th 160
LSAT: published 25th percentile 154, median 157, 75th percentile 160.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.23 · Median 3.51 · 75th 3.72
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.23, median 3.51, 75th percentile 3.72.

Published percentiles describe the class that enrolled; they are not an admissions prediction and PreLaw Advisor does not estimate anyone’s chances. Sign in to compare your own numbers privately.

Over the years on file

Median LSAT

1572025

2017: 1522018: 1532019: 1532020: 1532021: 1542022: 1542023: 1552024: 1552025: 157
Acceptance rate

36.5%2025

2017: 46.0%2018: 46.1%2019: 47.9%2020: 46.7%2021: 46.9%2022: 50.4%2023: 49.9%2024: 39.4%2025: 36.5%
Applications

3,5842025

2017: 1,7492018: 1,7522019: 1,9002020: 1,8832021: 2,0452022: 1,8552023: 2,0182024: 2,9462025: 3,584
First-time bar passage

72.1%2026

2018: 53.3%2019: 59.6%2020: 65.4%2021: 82.6%2022: 76.1%2023: 60.1%2024: 64.0%2025: 64.9%2026: 72.1%

Each line fits its own range, so it shows direction over time and cannot be compared with another school’s. Admissions figures use the ABA report year (the fall entering class); bar passage uses the report year, which covers the previous year’s graduates.