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 — 2024-2025

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
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	$31,334	$1,509
Full-time · nonresident	$47,568	$1,509
Part-time · resident	$25,072	$1,509
Part-time · nonresident	$38,068	$1,509

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$27,062
Living off campus$27,062
Living at home$15,992

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$31,334
Mandatory fees$1,509
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$27,062

PreLaw Advisor total$59,905

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 (2024–2025 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
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	658	546	112
Receiving grants	586	515	71
% receiving grants	89%	94%	63%
Less than half tuition	143	110	33
Half to full tuition	408	370	38
Full tuition	1	1	0
More than full tuition	34	34	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$18,750	$5,625
Median grant	Not applicable	$29,842	$13,125
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$38,375	$23,878

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 (2024)
Covers: Report year 2024
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports that it does not offer conditional scholarships.

Entering 2023-20240 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2022-2023162 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-2022186 received · 10 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.