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

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Missouri

University of Missouri received 798 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 335 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 42.0%. 125 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 37.3%. The full first-year class came to 129 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 373.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 161, with a 25th percentile of 156 and a 75th of 162. That is 2 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 74 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.47 at the 25th percentile, 3.72 at the median and 3.91 at the 75th.

The school bills tuition by the credit hour rather than by the year, at $1,028 a credit, against the 89 credits the JD requires. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $22,002. 292 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 79% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $17,500. 60 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 24 entering students held one and 3 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 110 of 132 passed, a rate of 83.33%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 82.12%, so the school ran 1.21 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 109 of 125 graduates (87.2%) held a job requiring bar admission. 13 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (10.4% of the class), of whom 7 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Missouri with 102 graduates, followed by Illinois with 4.

University of Missouri has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a public school based in Columbia, MO. 1 first-year students left for academic reasons, 1.0% of the class.

The full 509 record

Missouri has 4 ABA-approved law schools. The Missouri 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 Missouri 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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