Saint Louis University School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Saint Louis University

Saint Louis University received 941 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 531 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 56.4%. 221 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 41.6%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 222 students: 199 full time and 23 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 594.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 157, with a 25th percentile of 154 and a 75th of 161. 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 3.37 at the 25th percentile, 3.61 at the median and 3.83 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $55,260 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $930. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $26,112. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $82,302 for one year, or $246,906 across three, before any grant. 538 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 97% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $25,000. 6 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 152 of 181 passed, a rate of 83.98%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 81.88%, so the school ran 2.10 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 149 of 169 graduates (88.2%) held a job requiring bar admission. 31 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (18.3% of the class), of whom 25 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was Missouri with 126 graduates, followed by Illinois with 15.

It is a private school based in St. Louis, MO. 2 first-year students left for academic reasons, 1.0% of the class. 4 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Missouri has 4 ABA-approved law schools. The Missouri 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 Saint Louis 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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