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Iowa City, Iowa

The University of Iowa College of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1923
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
164
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.78
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$30,944
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
159
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
91.1%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
91.4%
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 — 2017 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2018 report)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
86.8%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
81.5%
Difference
+5.31 pts
First-time takers
129
112 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
JurisdictionTakersPassersSchool %Jurisdiction %Difference
Iowa595593.2%86.6%+6.65
17 Remaining Jurisdictions443886.4%77.5%+8.84
Illinois141285.7%79.8%+5.89
California12758.3%66.2%-7.86

Ultimate bar passage — 2015 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2018 report)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
98.5%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
141
Takers
133
Passers
131

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 classSchoolJurisdictions
202591.4%80.9%
202491%82.1%
202388.2%81.2%
202284.7%80.5%
202184.1%75.5%
202093.6%80.9%
201992.5%79.1%
201886.3%79.3%
201786.8%81.5%