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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Widener University Commonwealth Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1988
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
150
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.33
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$1,875 / credit
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
159
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
77.1%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
68.9%
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 — 2021 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2022 report)
Covers
Report year 2022
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
56.2%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
75.8%
Difference
-19.64 pts
First-time takers
89
50 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
Pennsylvania683957.4%75%-17.65
10 Remaining Jurisdictions211152.4%76%-23.64

Ultimate bar passage — 2019 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2022 report)
Covers
Report year 2022
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
78.2%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
80
Takers
78
Passers
61

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
202568.9%79%
202454%80.1%
202353.8%74.3%
202247.9%73.6%
202156.2%75.8%
202069.7%79.4%
201968.1%79.2%
201851.9%76.2%
201767.7%78.7%