State Guide · 2 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Mississippi law school requirements
Mississippi has 2 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 152 to 157. Together they took 1,764 completed applications, made 884 offers and filled 339 first-year seats in 2025. Every number on this page comes from those schools' own ABA Standard 509 reports.
ABA schools
2
1 public, 1 private
LSAT median range
152 to 157
across the state
First-year seats
339
from 1,764 applications
Tuition range
$26,797 to $37,980
full time, non-resident
The 2 ABA-approved Mississippi law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of MississippiUniversity | Public | 157 | 3.68 | 42.0% | 160 | $26,797 |
| Mississippi CollegeJackson | Private | 152 | 3.37 | 59.8% | 179 | $37,980 |
What the state data shows
University of Mississippi reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 157, with a 3.68 GPA median and a 42.0% acceptance rate on 958 applications. The spread of 5 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Mississippi school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Mississippi's strongest reported median sits 2 points below it.
1 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 Mississippi at $19,797 a year, where the median full-time grant is $7,000. Across the state, published non-resident tuition runs from $26,797 to $37,980, a gap of $11,183 a year before fees, living costs or scholarship.
0 of the 2 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. University of Mississippi reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 73.17% from 164 first-time takers, against a 79.74% 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.