State Guide · 4 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Louisiana law school requirements
Louisiana has 4 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 147 to 161. Together they took 5,716 completed applications, made 2,594 offers and filled 994 first-year seats in 2025. Every number on this page comes from those schools' own ABA Standard 509 reports.
ABA schools
4
2 public, 2 private
LSAT median range
147 to 161
across the state
First-year seats
994
from 5,716 applications
Tuition range
$11,338 to $69,578
full time, non-resident
The 4 ABA-approved Louisiana law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tulane UniversityNew Orleans | Private | 161 | 3.67 | 40.0% | 241 | $69,578 |
| LSU Paul M. HebertBaton Rouge | Public | 157 | 3.74 | 38.5% | 230 | $19,750 |
| Loyola University New OrleansNew Orleans | Private | 154 | 3.47 | 50.9% | 223 | $55,024 |
| Southern UniversityBaton Rouge | Public | 147 | 3.15 | 56.5% | 300 | $11,338 |
What the state data shows
Tulane University reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 161, with a 3.67 GPA median and a 40.0% acceptance rate on 2,069 applications. The spread of 14 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Louisiana school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Louisiana's strongest reported median sits 2 points above it.
No school in the state reports a lower rate for residents than for non-residents in this cycle. The lowest published resident tuition belongs to Southern University at $11,338 a year, where the median full-time grant is $11,000. Across the state, published non-resident tuition runs from $11,338 to $69,578, a gap of $58,240 a year before fees, living costs or scholarship.
1 of the 4 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. LSU Paul M. Hebert reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 84.92% from 179 first-time takers, against a 74.57% jurisdiction average. Bar admission is granted state by state, so the jurisdiction you intend to practise in matters as much as the school.
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Data: ABA Standard 509 Information Report (2025), published for consumer disclosure, retrieved from the ABA Required Disclosures portal on 2026-09-01, with bar passage figures from the same portal's Bar Passage Outcomes report for the class of 2024. Restated in our own structure; no ABA document or file is reproduced here.