Belmont University College of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Belmont University

Belmont University received 1,337 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 503 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 37.6%. 136 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 27.0%. The full first-year class came to 136 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 372.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 161, with a 25th percentile of 158 and a 75th of 163. That is 2 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 74 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.66 at the 25th percentile, 3.84 at the median and 3.94 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $55,500 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $2,205. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $32,026. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $89,731 for one year, or $269,193 across three, before any grant. 227 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 62% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $40,710. 104 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 47 entering students held one and 10 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 114 of 120 passed, a rate of 95.00%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 77.95%, so the school ran 17.05 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 103 of 118 graduates (87.3%) held a job requiring bar admission. 13 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (11.0% of the class), of whom 8 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Tennessee with 93 graduates, followed by Arizona with 2.

Belmont University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 2013. It is a private school based in Nashville, TN. 8 first-year students left for academic reasons, 6.0% of the class.

The full 509 record

Tennessee has 5 ABA-approved law schools. The Tennessee 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 Belmont University College of Law 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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