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San Antonio, Texas

St. Mary's University School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1948
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
153
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.49
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$44,910
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
282
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
80.6%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
84.6%
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 2020

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
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 applications1,398Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission815Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate58.3%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment25021535
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th149 / 151 / 154149 / 151 / 154148 / 151 / 156
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.88 / 3.20 / 3.522.91 / 3.21 / 3.542.73 / 3.06 / 3.32
Students with GRE scores0Not reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 149 · Median 151 · 75th 154
LSAT: published 25th percentile 149, median 151, 75th percentile 154.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.88 · Median 3.20 · 75th 3.52
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.88, median 3.20, 75th percentile 3.52.

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 2020. 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 (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
736
1L
272
2L
250
3L
200
4L
14
J.D. degrees awarded
223

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
5.4%
1L other attrition
1.7%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
7
1L transfers out
1
Transfer GPA median
2.48

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