Atlanta's John Marshall Law School: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Atlanta's John Marshall

Atlanta's John Marshall received 1,274 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 416 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 32.7%. 135 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 32.5%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 138 students: 93 full time and 45 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 379.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 152, with a 25th percentile of 150 and a 75th of 155. That is 7 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 168 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 2.78 at the 25th percentile, 3.13 at the median and 3.49 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $52,536 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $1,050. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $35,426. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $89,012 for one year, or $267,036 across three, before any grant. 314 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 84% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $4,500. 16 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 125 entering students held one and 42 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 52 of 76 passed, a rate of 68.42%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 80.24%, so the school ran 11.82 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 74 of 101 graduates (73.3%) held a job requiring bar admission. 3 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (3.0% of the class), of whom 2 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was Georgia with 78 graduates, followed by New York with 3.

Atlanta's John Marshall has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 2014. It is a private school based in Atlanta, GA. 27 first-year students left for academic reasons, 20.0% of the class. 1 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Georgia has 5 ABA-approved law schools. The Georgia guide compares them on LSAT median, cost and bar passage, and covers the state's admission rules.

Data: ABA Standard 509 Information Report (2025), published for consumer disclosure, retrieved from the ABA Required Disclosures portal on 2026-09-01. Bar passage and employment figures come from the same portal's Bar Passage Outcomes and Employment Summary reports for the class of 2024. Figures describe the 2025 to 2026 reporting cycle for Atlanta's John Marshall Law School and are restated in our own structure; no ABA document or file is reproduced here. Verify anything decision-critical with the school.

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