University of Baltimore School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Baltimore

University of Baltimore received 1,299 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 643 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 49.5%. 246 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 38.3%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 248 students: 186 full time and 62 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 726.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 155, with a 25th percentile of 152 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 3.12 at the 25th percentile, 3.45 at the median and 3.70 at the 75th. 6 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $33,944 for residents and $50,624 for non-residents, a gap of $16,680 a year. Mandatory fees add $2,548. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $25,024. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $78,196 for one year, or $234,588 across three, before any grant. 471 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 67% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $15,000. 5 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 127 entering students held one and 20 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 140 of 198 passed, a rate of 70.71%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 70.64%, so the school ran 0.07 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 156 of 204 graduates (76.5%) held a job requiring bar admission. 7 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (3.4% of the class), of whom 4 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Maryland with 146 graduates, followed by Virginia with 10.

University of Baltimore has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1972. It is a public school based in Baltimore, MD. 1 first-year students left for academic reasons, 0.0% of the class. 4 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Maryland has 2 ABA-approved law schools. The Maryland 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 University of Baltimore 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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