Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico

Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico received 325 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 200 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 61.5%. 161 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 80.5%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 161 students: 96 full time and 65 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 479.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 139, with a 25th percentile of 136 and a 75th of 143. That is 20 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 196 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 2.97 at the 25th percentile, 3.33 at the median and 3.61 at the 75th.

The school bills tuition by the credit hour rather than by the year, at $540 a credit, against the 94 credits the JD requires. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $26,644. 114 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 24% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $1,593. 5 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 85 entering students held one and 12 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 56 of 102 passed, a rate of 54.90%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 52.08%, so the school ran 2.82 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 28 of 147 graduates (19.0%) held a job requiring bar admission. The largest single destination was Puerto Rico with 69 graduates, followed by District Of Columbia with 1.

Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1967. It is a private school based in Ponce, PR. 18 first-year students left for academic reasons, 12.0% of the class.

The full 509 record

Puerto Rico has 3 ABA-approved law schools. The Puerto Rico 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 Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico 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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