LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about LSU Paul M. Hebert

LSU Paul M. Hebert received 1,253 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 483 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 38.5%. 230 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 47.6%. The full first-year class came to 230 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 635.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 157, with a 25th percentile of 155 and a 75th of 160. That is 2 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 109 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.48 at the 25th percentile, 3.74 at the median and 3.93 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $19,750 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $19,355. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $27,034. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $66,139 for one year, or $198,417 across three, before any grant. 492 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 78% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $19,750. 172 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 163 entering students held one and 34 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 152 of 179 passed, a rate of 84.92%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 74.57%, so the school ran 10.35 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 166 of 198 graduates (83.8%) held a job requiring bar admission. 17 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (8.6% of the class), of whom 7 went to firms of 501 or more. 9 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Louisiana with 120 graduates, followed by Texas with 29.

LSU Paul M. Hebert has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1926. It is a public school based in Baton Rouge, LA. 5 first-year students left for academic reasons, 2.0% of the class. 1 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Louisiana has 4 ABA-approved law schools. The Louisiana 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 LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center 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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