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.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2021-2022

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2021)
Covers: Report year 2021
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Tuition and fees by program and residency
Program	Tuition	Fees
Full-time · resident	$57,818	$1,152
Full-time · nonresident	$57,818	$1,152
Part-time · per credit (resident)	$2,141	$512

Living expenses (school estimates)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2021)
Covers: Report year 2021
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$25,384
Living off campus$25,384
Living at home$25,384

Annual estimates for single students, as reported by the school. Books, transportation and insurance are not itemized in ABA disclosures.

Estimated annual cost (calculation)

Tuition$57,818
Mandatory fees$1,152
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$25,384

PreLaw Advisor total$84,354

Sum of the school-published figures above. It is not the school’s official cost of attendance and assumes no scholarship.

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Grants & scholarships (2021–2022 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2021)
Covers: Report year 2021
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Grant recipients and amounts
Measure	All	Full-time	Part-time
Total students	1,138	933	205
Receiving grants	911	771	140
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	203	190	13
Half to full tuition	601	485	116
Full tuition	106	95	11
More than full tuition	1	1	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$25,000	$30,000
Median grant	Not applicable	$35,000	$30,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$40,000	$31,000

The ABA publishes grant percentiles by full-time/part-time status only. These describe past awards; they do not indicate what any applicant will receive.

Conditional scholarships

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2021)
Covers: Report year 2021
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2019-20206 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2018-20199 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2017-20185 received · 0 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.