University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Maryland Francis King Carey

University of Maryland Francis King Carey received 2,876 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 750 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 26.1%. 229 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 30.5%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 229 students: 208 full time and 21 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 650.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 164, with a 25th percentile of 156 and a 75th of 166. That is 5 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 49 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.37 at the 25th percentile, 3.72 at the median and 3.88 at the 75th. 9 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $37,830 for residents and $55,844 for non-residents, a gap of $18,014 a year. Mandatory fees add $2,179. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $32,842. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $90,865 for one year, or $272,595 across three, before any grant. 507 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 79% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $28,000. 100 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 188 of 229 passed, a rate of 82.10%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 72.24%, so the school ran 9.86 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 171 of 208 graduates (82.2%) held a job requiring bar admission. 27 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (13.0% of the class), of whom 21 went to firms of 501 or more. 4 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Maryland with 126 graduates, followed by District Of Columbia with 35.

University of Maryland Francis King Carey has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1930. It is a public school based in Baltimore, MD. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year. 7 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 Maryland Francis King Carey 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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