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San Juan, Puerto Rico

University of Puerto Rico

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1945
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
152
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.77
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$305 / credit
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
122
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
48.4%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
75.7%
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.

First-time bar passage — 2019 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2020 report)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
48.8%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
34.6%
Difference
+14.18 pts
First-time takers
166
81 passed

The weighted jurisdiction rate is the average first-time pass rate in the jurisdictions where this school’s graduates tested, weighted by the number of takers. It gives context for the school’s own rate.

First-time results by jurisdiction
JurisdictionTakersPassersSchool %Jurisdiction %Difference
Puerto Rico1648048.8%34.1%+14.68
2 Remaining Jurisdictions2150%75.9%-25.92

Ultimate bar passage — 2017 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2020 report)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
78.5%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
161
Takers
144
Passers
113

Ultimate passage counts graduates who passed any bar exam within two years of graduating. It is a different measure from first-time passage and covers an earlier graduating class.

First-time passage history

First-time pass rate by graduating class
Graduating classSchoolJurisdictions
202575.7%55%
202458.3%53.2%
202351.4%48.7%
202266.9%47%
202144.7%34.1%
202042.2%35.9%
201948.8%34.6%
201850.2%38.8%
201749.4%41.8%