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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 2023

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2023)
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Report year 2023
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 applications5,368Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission1,916Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate35.7%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment40834563
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th156 / 162 / 163156 / 162 / 163156 / 161 / 164
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.43 / 3.63 / 3.753.46 / 3.64 / 3.753.24 / 3.60 / 3.73
Students with GRE scores1266
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 156 · Median 162 · 75th 163
LSAT: published 25th percentile 156, median 162, 75th percentile 163.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.43 · Median 3.63 · 75th 3.75
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.43, median 3.63, 75th percentile 3.75.
GRE Verbal25th 159 · Median 163 · 75th 165
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 159, median 163, 75th percentile 165.
GRE Quantitative25th 152 · Median 155 · 75th 157
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 152, median 155, 75th percentile 157.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2023. 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 (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
1,231
1L
415
2L
382
3L
387
4L
47
J.D. degrees awarded
313

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
1%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
11
1L transfers out
31
Transfer GPA median
3.05

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