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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2021-2022

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 (2021)
Covers: Report year 2021
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	$27,656	$1,133
Full-time · nonresident	$42,388	$1,133
Part-time · resident	$22,124	$1,133
Part-time · nonresident	$33,920	$1,133

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 (2021)
Covers: Report year 2021
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$22,844
Living off campus$22,844
Living at home$13,394

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$27,656
Mandatory fees$1,133
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$22,844

PreLaw Advisor total$51,633

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 (2021–2022 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2021)
Covers: Report year 2021
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	736	591	145
Receiving grants	585	502	83
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	160	111	49
Half to full tuition	239	213	26
Full tuition	168	160	8
More than full tuition	18	18	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$15,000	$5,625
Median grant	Not applicable	$25,000	$10,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$29,533	$15,000

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 (2021)
Covers: Report year 2021
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2019-2020166 received · 4 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2018-2019192 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2017-2018184 received · 8 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.