Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Cecil C. Humphreys

Cecil C. Humphreys received 582 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 239 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 41.1%. 96 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 40.2%. The full first-year class came to 96 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 239.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 155, with a 25th percentile of 152 and a 75th of 159. 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 3.22 at the 25th percentile, 3.53 at the median and 3.77 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $18,634 for residents and $24,354 for non-residents, a gap of $5,720 a year. Mandatory fees add $2,594. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $28,729. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $55,677 for one year, or $167,031 across three, before any grant. 148 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 62% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $11,000. 31 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 36 entering students held one and 9 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 69 of 94 passed, a rate of 73.40%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 78.52%, so the school ran 5.12 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 75 of 94 graduates (79.8%) held a job requiring bar admission. 6 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (6.4% of the class), of whom 2 went to firms of 501 or more. 2 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Tennessee with 70 graduates, followed by Georgia with 2.

Cecil C. Humphreys has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1965. It is a public school based in Memphis, TN. 5 first-year students left for academic reasons, 7.0% of the class. 2 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Tennessee has 5 ABA-approved law schools. The Tennessee 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 Cecil C. Humphreys 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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