Thurgood Marshall School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall received 2,032 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 673 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 33.1%. 219 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 32.5%. The full first-year class came to 221 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 556.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 150, with a 25th percentile of 148 and a 75th of 152. That is 9 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 183 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 2.99 at the 25th percentile, 3.33 at the median and 3.62 at the 75th. 5 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $19,202 for residents and $26,331 for non-residents, a gap of $7,129 a year. Mandatory fees add $1,836. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $27,784. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $55,951 for one year, or $167,853 across three, before any grant. 283 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 51% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $7,363. 7 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 83 entering students held one and 56 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 144 of 199 passed, a rate of 72.36%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 81.30%, so the school ran 8.94 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 97 of 164 graduates (59.1%) held a job requiring bar admission. 17 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (10.4% of the class), of whom 8 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Texas with 104 graduates, followed by District Of Columbia with 3.

Thurgood Marshall has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1949. It is a public school based in Houston, TX. 25 first-year students left for academic reasons, 12.0% of the class.

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 Thurgood Marshall 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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