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

What the 2025 numbers say about University of Texas

University of Texas received 6,297 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 881 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 14.0%. 361 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 41.0%. The full first-year class came to 373 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 928.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 172, with a 25th percentile of 166 and a 75th of 173. That is 13 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 11 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.75 at the 25th percentile, 3.89 at the median and 3.96 at the 75th. 4 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $38,236 for residents and $56,822 for non-residents, a gap of $18,586 a year. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $25,398. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $82,220 for one year, or $246,660 across three, before any grant. 815 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 94% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $23,375. 85 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 394 of 411 passed, a rate of 95.86%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 81.57%, so the school ran 14.29 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 296 of 308 graduates (96.1%) held a job requiring bar admission. 126 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (40.9% of the class), of whom 121 went to firms of 501 or more. 44 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Texas with 227 graduates, followed by New York with 29.

University of Texas has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a public school based in Austin, TX. No first-year students left for academic reasons in the reporting year. 8 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Texas has 10 ABA-approved law schools. The Texas 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 Texas 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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