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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 2024

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
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 applications5,216Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission2,075Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate39.8%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment41235260
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th155 / 160 / 163155 / 160 / 163157 / 161 / 163
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.37 / 3.61 / 3.733.38 / 3.61 / 3.743.36 / 3.60 / 3.69
Students with GRE scores743
Students with JD-Next scores000

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 155 · Median 160 · 75th 163
LSAT: published 25th percentile 155, median 160, 75th percentile 163.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.37 · Median 3.61 · 75th 3.73
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.37, median 3.61, 75th percentile 3.73.

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 2024. 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 (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
1,230
1L
416
2L
377
3L
376
4L
61
J.D. degrees awarded
383

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
1%
1L other attrition
0%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
12
1L transfers out
42
Transfer GPA median
3.02

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