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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.

J.D. program formats

Full-time J.D.
Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
Part-time J.D.
Offered. The school is on the ABA Council’s list of approved part-time programs.
Distance-education J.D.
Offered. The school is on the ABA Council’s distance-education J.D. list.

Formats come from the ABA Council’s published lists, not from the school’s marketing. What each format means

Programs published by the school

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Curriculum & faculty (2025 ABA report)

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — Curricular Offerings (2025)
Covers
Report year 2025
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Course titles beyond 1L
306
Clinic positions available
181
181 filled
Field placements filled
261
Simulation course seats
774
Co-curricular offerings
87
Full-time faculty
72
330 total faculty

Clinic and simulation seat counts are only mapped from report layouts that define them unambiguously (2025 onward).