University of Massachusetts School of Law-Dartmouth: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Massachusetts School of Law-Dartmouth

University of Massachusetts School of Law-Dartmouth received 1,311 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 684 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 52.2%. 140 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 20.5%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 141 students: 120 full time and 21 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 389.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 152, with a 25th percentile of 149 and a 75th of 155. 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 3.10 at the 25th percentile, 3.36 at the median and 3.69 at the 75th. 10 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $31,766 for residents and $41,565 for non-residents, a gap of $9,799 a year. Mandatory fees add $1,690. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $34,626. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $77,881 for one year, or $233,643 across three, before any grant. 319 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 84% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $15,000. 29 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 63 of 108 passed, a rate of 58.33%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 78.83%, so the school ran 20.50 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 67 of 98 graduates (68.4%) held a job requiring bar admission. 1 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (1.0% of the class), of whom 1 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was Massachusetts with 47 graduates, followed by California with 5.

University of Massachusetts School of Law-Dartmouth has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 2012. It is a public school based in North Dartmouth, MA. 16 first-year students left for academic reasons, 10.0% of the class.

The full 509 record

Massachusetts has 8 ABA-approved law schools. The Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts School of Law-Dartmouth 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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