Washington University School of Law (WashU Law): admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Washington University School of Law (WashU Law)

Washington University School of Law (WashU Law) received 5,616 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 1,065 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 19.0%. 258 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 24.2%. The full first-year class came to 261 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 787.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 175, with a 25th percentile of 165 and a 75th of 176. That is 16 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 1 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.58 at the 25th percentile, 3.96 at the median and 4.00 at the 75th. 3 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $72,792 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $892. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $28,603. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $102,287 for one year, or $306,861 across three, before any grant. 738 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 94% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $48,000. 163 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 262 of 280 passed, a rate of 93.57%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 81.37%, so the school ran 12.20 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 257 of 273 graduates (94.1%) held a job requiring bar admission. 130 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (47.6% of the class), of whom 109 went to firms of 501 or more. 32 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Missouri with 52 graduates, followed by Illinois with 44.

Washington University School of Law (WashU Law) has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a private school based in St. Louis, MO. 2 first-year students left for academic reasons, 1.0% of the class. 20 students transferred in from other law schools.

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 Washington University School of Law (WashU 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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