State Guide · 2 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Maryland law school requirements
Maryland has 2 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 155 to 164. Together they took 4,175 completed applications, made 1,393 offers and filled 477 first-year seats in 2025. Every number on this page comes from those schools' own ABA Standard 509 reports.
ABA schools
2
2 public, 0 private
LSAT median range
155 to 164
across the state
First-year seats
477
from 4,175 applications
Tuition range
$50,624 to $55,844
full time, non-resident
The 2 ABA-approved Maryland law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Maryland Francis King CareyBaltimore | Public | 164 | 3.72 | 26.1% | 229 | $55,844 |
| University of BaltimoreBaltimore | Public | 155 | 3.45 | 49.5% | 248 | $50,624 |
What the state data shows
University of Maryland Francis King Carey reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 164, with a 3.72 GPA median and a 26.1% acceptance rate on 2,876 applications. The spread of 9 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Maryland school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Maryland's strongest reported median sits 5 points above it.
2 of the 2 schools charge residents less than non-residents, so residency status is worth checking before you apply. The lowest published resident tuition belongs to University of Baltimore at $33,944 a year, where the median full-time grant is $15,000. Across the state, published non-resident tuition runs from $50,624 to $55,844, a gap of $5,220 a year before fees, living costs or scholarship.
2 of the 2 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. University of Maryland Francis King Carey reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 82.10% from 229 first-time takers, against a 72.24% 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.