Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana

Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana received 568 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 292 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 51.4%. 95 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 32.5%. The full first-year class came to 95 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 280.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 156, with a 25th percentile of 153 and a 75th of 159. That is 3 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 122 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.33 at the 25th percentile, 3.64 at the median and 3.80 at the 75th. 3 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $24,582 for residents and $51,582 for non-residents, a gap of $27,000 a year. Mandatory fees add $3,502. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $35,371. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $90,455 for one year, or $271,365 across three, before any grant. 240 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 89% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $10,000. 25 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 64 entering students held one and 0 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 64 of 78 passed, a rate of 82.05%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 80.67%, so the school ran 1.38 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 70 of 86 graduates (81.4%) held a job requiring bar admission. 5 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Montana with 61 graduates, followed by Idaho with 2.

Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a public school based in Missoula, MT. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year.

The full 509 record

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 Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana 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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