St. Thomas University College of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about St. Thomas University

St. Thomas University received 1,771 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 1,067 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 60.2%. 424 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 39.7%. The full first-year class came to 431 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 998.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 152, with a 25th percentile of 150 and a 75th of 156. That is 7 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 168 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.12 at the 25th percentile, 3.42 at the median and 3.65 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $44,730 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $2,848. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $42,548. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $90,126 for one year, or $270,378 across three, before any grant. 526 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 64% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $25,320. 2 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 102 entering students held one and 55 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 199 of 246 passed, a rate of 80.89%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 72.73%, so the school ran 8.16 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 152 of 194 graduates (78.4%) held a job requiring bar admission. 17 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (8.8% of the class), of whom 7 went to firms of 501 or more. 2 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Florida with 153 graduates, followed by Georgia with 2.

St. Thomas University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1988. It is a private school based in Miami Gardens, FL. 41 first-year students left for academic reasons, 10.0% of the class. 4 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Florida has 11 ABA-approved law schools. The Florida 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 St. Thomas University College 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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