William & Mary
Public law school · ABA Standard 509 disclosures, 2025, Fall 2025 entering class
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Getting in
Fall 2025 entering class
- Applications
- 2,176
- Offers of admission
- 478
- Acceptance rate (offers ÷ applications)
- 22.0%
- LSAT, 25th / median / 75th percentile
- 161 / 166 / 167
- GPA, 25th / median / 75th percentile
- 3.53 / 3.82 / 3.94
Cost
2025–26 school year
- Tuition and fees per year, residents
- $38,734 tuition + $7,368 fees
- Tuition and fees per year, non-residents
- $62,900 tuition + $7,939 fees
- Three years of tuition and fees, before grants (at 2025–26 rates), residents
- $138,306
- Three years of tuition and fees, before grants (at 2025–26 rates), non-residents
- $212,517
- Living costs (estimate)
- $25,184 a year
Living costs are the school's own estimate for a single student.
Grants and scholarships
2024–25
- Students receiving a grant
- 66%
- Full-time grant, 25th / median / 75th percentile
- $21,782 / $29,302 / $37,112 a year
Where graduates work
Class of 2025
- Graduates
- 199
- Employed
- 189
- Full-time, long-term jobs that require passing the bar
- 91.0% of graduates
- BigLaw: full-time, long-term jobs at firms with 501+ lawyers
- 19.1% of graduates
- Federal clerkships
- 6.0% of graduates
- State and local clerkships
- 17.1% of graduates
- Government
- 11.1% of graduates
- Public interest
- 8.0% of graduates
- Education
- 1.0% of graduates
- Business and industry
- 2.5% of graduates
Percentages are of all graduates and count full-time, long-term jobs ten months after graduation.
Bar passage
ABA bar passage report, 2026
- First-time takers
- 194
- First-time pass rate
- 92.8%
- ABA state average
- 82.6%This is the ABA's average across the states where this school's graduates took the bar, weighted by where most sat. It is not one state's number.
- Difference from the ABA state average
- +10.2 points
- Two-year pass rate
- 97.2%
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Check my chances hereSource: ABA Standard 509 disclosures, 2025 (admissions, costs, grants), the ABA employment summary for the Class of 2025 and the ABA bar passage report, 2026. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the ABA. This is information, not advice and not a promise of admission or money.