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Nashville, Tennessee

Vanderbilt University Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1925
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
170
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.91
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$76,440
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
172
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
98.2%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
94.6%
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
94.2%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
77.9%
Difference
+16.27 pts
First-time takers
205
193 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
26 Remaining Jurisdictions625995.2%77.9%+17.30
Tennessee444193.2%81%+12.18
New York282796.4%84.1%+12.31
Texas2121100%77.4%+22.63
District of Columbia1414100%72.1%+27.92
California13969.2%69.1%+0.12
Florida1313100%70.2%+29.76
Georgia10990%78%+12.00

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
96.3%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
190
Takers
189
Passers
182

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
202594.6%81.9%
202494.5%81.1%
202397%77.8%
202292.1%76.9%
202195.2%78%
202092.6%78.7%
201994.2%77.9%
201893.9%75.3%
201794.1%76.6%