Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Drexel University Thomas R. Kline

Drexel University Thomas R. Kline received 2,689 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 797 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 29.6%. 177 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 22.2%. The full first-year class came to 181 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 461.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 160, with a 25th percentile of 154 and a 75th of 162. That is 1 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 85 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.35 at the 25th percentile, 3.76 at the median and 3.87 at the 75th. 2 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $57,000 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $1,850. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $28,022. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $86,872 for one year, or $260,616 across three, before any grant. 349 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 76% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $28,667. 17 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 30 entering students held one and 4 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 119 of 140 passed, a rate of 85.00%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 79.48%, so the school ran 5.52 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 115 of 133 graduates (86.5%) held a job requiring bar admission. 21 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (15.8% of the class), of whom 15 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was Pennsylvania with 82 graduates, followed by New Jersey with 19.

Drexel University Thomas R. Kline has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 2008. It is a private school based in Philadelphia, PA. 7 first-year students left for academic reasons, 3.0% of the class. 3 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Pennsylvania has 8 ABA-approved law schools. The Pennsylvania 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 Drexel University Thomas R. Kline 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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