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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 — 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
81.6%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
71.5%
Difference
+10.12 pts
First-time takers
136
111 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
22 Remaining Jurisdictions514894.1%71.6%+22.54
North Carolina473574.5%65.2%+9.30
New York282175%81.3%-6.30
South Carolina10770%71.6%-1.61

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
94.7%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
174
Takers
171
Passers
162

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%