New Haven, Connecticut

Yale Law School

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1923
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 174; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.96; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $76,636; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 204; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 87.2%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 98.5%; 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 — 2020 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2021 report)
Covers: Report year 2021
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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School pass rate

98.9%

Weighted jurisdiction rate

79.5%

Difference

+19.37 pts

First-time takers

183

181 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
Jurisdiction	Takers	Passers	School %	Jurisdiction %	Difference
New York	50	49	98%	85.9%	+12.07
23 Remaining Jurisdictions	48	47	97.9%	78.1%	+19.87
District of Columbia	36	36	100%	75%	+24.99
California	24	24	100%	77.9%	+22.14
Connecticut	15	15	100%	74.5%	+25.48
Vermont	10	10	100%	78.3%	+21.71

Ultimate bar passage — 2018 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2021 report)
Covers: Report year 2021
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Ultimate pass rate

99%

Within two years of graduation

Graduates

215

Takers

208

Passers

206

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 class	School	Jurisdictions
2025	98.5%	85.4%
2024	96.5%	83.6%
2023	96.8%	80%
2022	95.8%	78.4%
2021	98.1%	80.7%
2020	98.9%	79.5%
2019	96.3%	77.4%
2018	96.8%	75%
2017	98.1%	79%