Washburn University School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Washburn University

Washburn University received 549 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 255 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 46.4%. 136 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 53.3%. The full first-year class came to 137 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 347.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 155, with a 25th percentile of 151 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 3.37 at the 25th percentile, 3.68 at the median and 3.88 at the 75th. 2 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

The school bills tuition by the credit hour rather than by the year, at $1,393 a credit, against the 90 credits the JD requires. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $17,018. 272 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 80% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $15,000. 59 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 86 entering students held one and 16 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 64 of 90 passed, a rate of 71.11%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 79.97%, so the school ran 8.86 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 86 of 99 graduates (86.9%) held a job requiring bar admission. 3 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (3.0% of the class), of whom 2 went to firms of 501 or more. 1 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Kansas with 60 graduates, followed by Missouri with 13.

Washburn University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a public school based in Topeka, KS. 3 first-year students left for academic reasons, 2.0% of the class. 1 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Kansas has 2 ABA-approved law schools. The Kansas 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 Washburn University 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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