Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1933
Institution type: Public
J.D. formats: Full-time and Part-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 165; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.76; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $32,588; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 237; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 88.2%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 89%; 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.

First-time bar passage — 2019 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2020 report)
Covers: Report year 2020
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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School pass rate

83.6%

Weighted jurisdiction rate

78.7%

Difference

+4.95 pts

First-time takers

214

179 passed

The weighted jurisdiction rate is the average first-time pass rate in the jurisdictions where this school’s graduates tested, weighted by the number of takers. It gives context for the school’s own rate.

First-time results by jurisdiction
Jurisdiction	Takers	Passers	School %	Jurisdiction %	Difference
Pennsylvania	162	139	85.8%	79.7%	+6.14
9 Remaining Jurisdictions	22	17	77.3%	72.9%	+4.36
New York	17	13	76.5%	84.1%	-7.65
New Jersey	13	10	76.9%	75.5%	+1.39

Ultimate bar passage — 2017 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2020 report)
Covers: Report year 2020
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Ultimate pass rate

93%

Within two years of graduation

Graduates

218

Takers

215

Passers

200

Ultimate passage counts graduates who passed any bar exam within two years of graduating. It is a different measure from first-time passage and covers an earlier graduating class.

First-time passage history

First-time pass rate by graduating class
Graduating class	School	Jurisdictions
2025	89%	79.9%
2024	90.3%	79.7%
2023	85.2%	74.8%
2022	83.1%	73%
2021	81.6%	74.8%
2020	87.6%	79%
2019	83.6%	78.7%
2018	80.1%	76.2%
2017	83.4%	78.6%