State Guide · 4 ABA Schools · 509 data 2025
Missouri law school requirements
Missouri has 4 ABA-approved law schools, with LSAT medians from 156 to 175. Together they took 8,069 completed applications, made 2,259 offers and filled 755 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
156 to 175
across the state
First-year seats
755
from 8,069 applications
Tuition range
$55,260 to $72,792
full time, non-resident
The 4 ABA-approved Missouri law schools
| School | Type | LSAT | GPA | Accept | 1L | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington University School of Law (WashU Law)St. Louis | Private | 175 | 3.96 | 19.0% | 261 | $72,792 |
| University of MissouriColumbia | Public | 161 | 3.72 | 42.0% | 129 | $1,028/cr |
| Saint Louis UniversitySt. Louis | Private | 157 | 3.61 | 56.4% | 222 | $55,260 |
| University of Missouri - Kansas CityKansas City | Public | 156 | 3.65 | 45.9% | 143 | $986/cr |
What the state data shows
Washington University School of Law (WashU Law) reports the highest LSAT median in the state at 175, with a 3.96 GPA median and a 19.0% acceptance rate on 5,616 applications. The spread of 19 LSAT points between the top and bottom of the state means a single score can be a stretch at one Missouri school and comfortably above median at another. The national median of school medians is 159, so Missouri's strongest reported median sits 16 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 Saint Louis University at $55,260 a year, where the median full-time grant is $25,000. Across the state, published non-resident tuition runs from $55,260 to $72,792, a gap of $17,532 a year before fees, living costs or scholarship.
4 of the 4 schools reporting bar outcomes beat the weighted average pass rate in the jurisdictions where their graduates sat. Washington University School of Law (WashU Law) reports the state's highest first-time pass rate at 93.57% from 280 first-time takers, against a 81.37% 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.