South Texas College of Law Houston: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about South Texas College of Law Houston

South Texas College of Law Houston received 2,770 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 932 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 33.6%. 437 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 46.9%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 437 students: 343 full time and 94 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 1,144.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 155, with a 25th percentile of 153 and a 75th of 158. That is 4 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 132 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.08 at the 25th percentile, 3.41 at the median and 3.65 at the 75th. 9 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $42,960 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $2,000. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $56,958. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $101,918 for one year, or $305,754 across three, before any grant. 985 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 85% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $11,000. 5 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 280 entering students held one and 94 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 267 of 293 passed, a rate of 91.13%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 81.42%, so the school ran 9.71 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 247 of 299 graduates (82.6%) held a job requiring bar admission. 22 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (7.4% of the class), of whom 16 went to firms of 501 or more. 3 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Texas with 261 graduates, followed by California with 3.

South Texas College of Law Houston has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1959. It is a private school based in Houston, TX. 24 first-year students left for academic reasons, 3.0% of the class. 3 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Texas has 10 ABA-approved law schools. The Texas 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 South Texas College of Law Houston 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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