Boston University School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Boston University

Boston University received 7,892 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 953 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 12.1%. 234 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 24.6%. The full first-year class came to 238 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 691.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 170, with a 25th percentile of 164 and a 75th of 171. That is 11 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 18 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.71 at the 25th percentile, 3.88 at the median and 3.93 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $69,870 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $1,512. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $21,532. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $92,914 for one year, or $278,742 across three, before any grant. 604 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 91% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $29,000. 43 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 275 of 298 passed, a rate of 92.28%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 83.30%, so the school ran 8.98 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 197 of 214 graduates (92.1%) held a job requiring bar admission. 101 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (47.2% of the class), of whom 88 went to firms of 501 or more. 3 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Massachusetts with 106 graduates, followed by New York with 46.

Boston University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1925. It is a private school based in Boston, MA. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year. 13 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Massachusetts has 8 ABA-approved law schools. The Massachusetts 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 Boston University School 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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