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Washington, District of Columbia

American University Washington College of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1940
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time and Distance education J.D.
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Median LSAT
162
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.63
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$66,990
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
405
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
69.4%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
86.6%
2025 graduates

Latest verified values from ABA required disclosures. Each dataset describes a different class, as labelled. The job share is PreLaw Advisor’s arithmetic (full-time, long-term bar-passage-required positions ÷ total graduates), not an ABA-published figure.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2020

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-timePart-time
Completed applications5,153Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission1,873Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate36.4%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment35529362
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th154 / 160 / 162154 / 160 / 162155 / 159 / 161
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.22 / 3.51 / 3.653.21 / 3.51 / 3.653.24 / 3.51 / 3.63
Students with GRE scores0Not reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 154 · Median 160 · 75th 162
LSAT: published 25th percentile 154, median 160, 75th percentile 162.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.22 · Median 3.51 · 75th 3.65
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.22, median 3.51, 75th percentile 3.65.

The school did not publish full GRE percentiles for this class, so a GRE comparison is not shown. PreLaw Advisor does not convert GRE scores into LSAT equivalents.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2020. Being above or below a published percentile does not determine an admissions decision.

J.D. enrollment

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — JD Enrollment and Ethnicity (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
1,138
1L
359
2L
328
3L
404
4L
47
J.D. degrees awarded
386

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
2.3%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
5
1L transfers out
57
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

Transfer GPA percentiles are only published when a school admits 12 or more transfer students.