Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones

Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones received 620 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 334 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 53.9%. 167 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 50.0%. The full first-year class came to 167 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 411.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 150, with a 25th percentile of 148 and a 75th of 154. That is 9 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 183 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 2.99 at the 25th percentile, 3.33 at the median and 3.66 at the 75th. 1 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $39,900 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $500. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $32,600. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $73,000 for one year, or $219,000 across three, before any grant. 246 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 72% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $15,960.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 50 of 70 passed, a rate of 71.43%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 80.60%, so the school ran 9.17 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 59 of 88 graduates (67.0%) held a job requiring bar admission. 2 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (2.3% of the class), of whom 0 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was Alabama with 43 graduates, followed by Florida with 12.

Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 2006. It is a private school based in Montgomery, AL. 4 first-year students left for academic reasons, 3.0% of the class.

The full 509 record

Alabama has 3 ABA-approved law schools. The Alabama 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 Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones 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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