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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1960
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
157
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.62
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$58,898
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
184
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
86.8%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
89.7%
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.

Latest verified year

First-year class — fall 2025

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2025)
Covers
Report year 2025
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-timePart-time
Completed applications1,432Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission619Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate43.2%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment18415430
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th155 / 157 / 160155 / 157 / 160152 / 155 / 158
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.35 / 3.62 / 3.853.42 / 3.67 / 3.872.80 / 3.19 / 3.61
Students with GRE scores642
Students with JD-Next scores000

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 155 · Median 157 · 75th 160
LSAT: published 25th percentile 155, median 157, 75th percentile 160.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.35 · Median 3.62 · 75th 3.85
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.35, median 3.62, 75th percentile 3.85.

The school did not publish full GRE percentiles for this class, so a GRE comparison is not shown. PreLaw Advisor does not convert GRE scores into LSAT equivalents.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2025. Being above or below a published percentile does not determine an admissions decision.

J.D. enrollment

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — JD Enrollment and Ethnicity (2025)
Covers
Report year 2025
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
528
1L
186
2L
155
3L
163
4L
24
J.D. degrees awarded
152

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
4%
1L other attrition
0%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
1
1L transfers out
5
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

Transfer GPA percentiles are only published when a school admits 12 or more transfer students.