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Winston Salem, North Carolina

Wake Forest University School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1936
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
166
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.79
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$57,920
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
204
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
89.2%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
89.6%
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 — 2017 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2018 report)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
92.7%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
71.2%
Difference
+21.51 pts
First-time takers
151
140 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
North Carolina666192.4%65.2%+27.20
18 Remaining Jurisdictions474697.9%74.7%+23.19
New York161275%83.9%-8.92
Georgia1212100%73.2%+26.77
Virginia10990%75.6%+14.38

Ultimate bar passage — 2015 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2018 report)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
94.1%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
147
Takers
136
Passers
128

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
202589.6%81.4%
202488.2%79.3%
202392.4%75.4%
202289.8%74%
202194.3%78.6%
202094.6%81.1%
201990%79.1%
201881.6%71.5%
201792.7%71.2%