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Baltimore, Maryland

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1930
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
164
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.72
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$37,830
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
229
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
79.8%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
81.7%
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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2021

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2021)
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Report year 2021
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 applications2,899Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission950Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate32.8%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment27623640
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th156 / 161 / 163157 / 161 / 163155 / 161 / 164
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.42 / 3.70 / 3.803.42 / 3.71 / 3.813.41 / 3.62 / 3.77
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 156 · Median 161 · 75th 163
LSAT: published 25th percentile 156, median 161, 75th percentile 163.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.42 · Median 3.70 · 75th 3.80
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.42, median 3.70, 75th percentile 3.80.
GRE Verbal25th 154 · Median 158 · 75th 162
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 154, median 158, 75th percentile 162.
GRE Quantitative25th 148 · Median 152 · 75th 162
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 148, median 152, 75th percentile 162.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2021. 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 (2021)
Covers
Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
710
1L
277
2L
195
3L
210
4L
28
J.D. degrees awarded
206

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0.5%
1L other attrition
0%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
10
1L transfers out
11
Transfer GPA median
3.06

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