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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 2024

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
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 applications2,410Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission743Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate30.8%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment20318419
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th154 / 163 / 165154 / 163 / 165153 / 163 / 166
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.33 / 3.73 / 3.863.35 / 3.73 / 3.862.99 / 3.73 / 3.97
Students with GRE scores963
Students with JD-Next scores000

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 154 · Median 163 · 75th 165
LSAT: published 25th percentile 154, median 163, 75th percentile 165.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.33 · Median 3.73 · 75th 3.86
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.33, median 3.73, 75th percentile 3.86.

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 2024. 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 (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
644
1L
204
2L
212
3L
191
4L
37
J.D. degrees awarded
244

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
0%
Upper-level academic attrition
1%
Transfers in
6
1L transfers out
15
Transfer GPA median
3.39

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