Charlottesville, Virginia

University of Virginia School of Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1923
Institution type: Public
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 173; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.99; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $74,078; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 309; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 98.1%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 95.1%; 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

95.4%

Weighted jurisdiction rate

74.5%

Difference

+20.89 pts

First-time takers

301

287 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
Jurisdiction	Takers	Passers	School %	Jurisdiction %	Difference
New York	91	90	98.9%	81.3%	+17.60
23 Remaining Jurisdictions	69	66	95.7%	72.5%	+23.20
Virginia	50	48	96%	76.4%	+19.62
District of Columbia	48	48	100%	69.8%	+30.21
California	25	20	80%	60.3%	+19.66
Texas	18	15	83.3%	73.1%	+10.21

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

97.9%

Within two years of graduation

Graduates

329

Takers

326

Passers

319

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 class	School	Jurisdictions
2025	95.1%	84.9%
2024	95%	82.8%
2023	96.5%	79.4%
2022	95.7%	77.9%
2021	94.8%	79.9%
2020	98.4%	80.3%
2019	95.8%	78%
2018	95.4%	74.5%
2017	96.5%	77.5%