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Houston, Texas

University of Houston Law Center

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1950
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
163
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.79
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$31,326
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
249
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
84.9%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
84.5%
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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2022

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2022)
Covers
Report year 2022
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 applications3,115Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission1,001Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate32.1%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment25621838
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th157 / 161 / 162157 / 161 / 162152 / 158 / 163
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.50 / 3.70 / 3.803.50 / 3.71 / 3.813.44 / 3.70 / 3.77
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 157 · Median 161 · 75th 162
LSAT: published 25th percentile 157, median 161, 75th percentile 162.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.50 · Median 3.70 · 75th 3.80
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.50, median 3.70, 75th percentile 3.80.
GRE Verbal25th 153 · Median 154 · 75th 159
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 153, median 154, 75th percentile 159.
GRE Quantitative25th 146 · Median 149 · 75th 156
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 146, median 149, 75th percentile 156.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2022. 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 (2022)
Covers
Report year 2022
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
767
1L
255
2L
246
3L
243
4L
23
J.D. degrees awarded
205

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
4.5%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
18
1L transfers out
4
Transfer GPA median
3.50

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