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.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2023-2024

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Tuition and fees by program and residency
Program	Tuition	Fees
Full-time · resident	$34,987	$2,012
Full-time · nonresident	$51,643	$2,012
Part-time · resident	$22,968	$1,996
Part-time · nonresident	$33,810	$1,996

Living expenses (school estimates)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$25,163
Living off campus$29,842
Living at home$18,592

Annual estimates for single students, as reported by the school. Books, transportation and insurance are not itemized in ABA disclosures.

Estimated annual cost (calculation)

Tuition$34,987
Mandatory fees$2,012
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$29,842

PreLaw Advisor total$66,841

Sum of the school-published figures above. It is not the school’s official cost of attendance and assumes no scholarship.

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Grants & scholarships (2023–2024 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Grant recipients and amounts
Measure	All	Full-time	Part-time
Total students	698	590	108
Receiving grants	581	502	79
% receiving grants	83%	85%	73%
Less than half tuition	249	209	40
Half to full tuition	245	215	30
Full tuition	83	74	9
More than full tuition	2	2	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$11,519	$5,000
Median grant	Not applicable	$25,000	$12,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$37,000	$18,277

The ABA publishes grant percentiles by full-time/part-time status only. These describe past awards; they do not indicate what any applicant will receive.

Conditional scholarships

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports that it does not offer conditional scholarships.

Entering 2022-20230 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-20220 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2020-20210 received · 0 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.