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Los Angeles, California

University of Southern California Gould School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1924
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
169
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.91
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$84,034
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
228
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
94.3%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
94.1%
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 — 2018 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2019 report)
Covers
Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
81%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
61.8%
Difference
+19.18 pts
First-time takers
195
158 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
California17714179.7%60.3%+19.32
7 Remaining Jurisdictions181794.4%75.2%+19.22

Ultimate bar passage — 2016 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2019 report)
Covers
Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
86.8%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
197
Takers
189
Passers
164

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
202594.1%83.3%
202494%78.7%
202382.4%73.6%
202289%73.7%
202195.2%77.7%
202092.1%78.5%
201987.7%70.1%
201881%61.8%
201788.8%67.4%