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 — 2023-2024

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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	$29,842	$1,211
Full-time · nonresident	$45,738	$1,211
Part-time · resident	$23,878	$1,211
Part-time · nonresident	$36,604	$1,211

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$25,514
Living off campus$25,514
Living at home$15,164

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$29,842
Mandatory fees$1,211
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$25,514

PreLaw Advisor total$56,567

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 (2023–2024 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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	659	535	124
Receiving grants	558	484	74
% receiving grants	85%	90%	60%
Less than half tuition	279	246	33
Half to full tuition	259	220	39
Full tuition	0	0	0
More than full tuition	20	18	2
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$17,500	$7,500
Median grant	Not applicable	$28,420	$13,438
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$36,750	$21,298

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports that it does not offer conditional scholarships.

Entering 2022-2023162 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-2022186 received · 10 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2020-2021166 received · 4 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.