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Charlottesville, Virginia

University of Virginia School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1923
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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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 — 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
95.8%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
78%
Difference
+17.84 pts
First-time takers
285
273 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
New York8484100%84.1%+15.88
19 Remaining Jurisdictions524790.4%75.9%+14.51
Virginia433888.4%77.9%+10.51
District of Columbia3636100%72.1%+27.92
Texas272696.3%77.4%+18.93
California212095.2%69.1%+26.13
Illinois1212100%74.1%+25.90
Pennsylvania1010100%79.7%+20.34

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
99.7%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
297
Takers
294
Passers
293

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
202595.1%84.9%
202495%82.8%
202396.5%79.4%
202295.7%77.9%
202194.8%79.9%
202098.4%80.3%
201995.8%78%
201895.4%74.5%
201796.5%77.5%