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New York, New York

Columbia Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1923
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
173
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.92
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$85,368
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
444
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
96.5%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
94.7%
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.

First-time bar passage — 2021 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2022 report)
Covers
Report year 2022
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
96.5%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
84.2%
Difference
+12.30 pts
First-time takers
460
444 passed

The weighted jurisdiction rate is the average first-time pass rate in the jurisdictions where this school’s graduates tested, weighted by the number of takers. It gives context for the school’s own rate.

First-time results by jurisdiction
JurisdictionTakersPassersSchool %Jurisdiction %Difference
New York35635098.3%86.2%+12.12
California434093%77%+16.03
49 Remaining Jurisdictions322784.4%74.3%+10.09
District of Columbia191789.5%80.6%+8.90
Massachusetts1010100%80.5%+19.52

Ultimate bar passage — 2019 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2022 report)
Covers
Report year 2022
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
95.6%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
433
Takers
430
Passers
411

Ultimate passage counts graduates who passed any bar exam within two years of graduating. It is a different measure from first-time passage and covers an earlier graduating class.

First-time passage history

First-time pass rate by graduating class
Graduating classSchoolJurisdictions
202594.7%86.6%
202495.9%85%
202395.5%81.6%
202293.7%81.3%
202196.5%84.2%
202096.4%84.1%
201995.1%81.5%
201897.3%79.2%
201796.7%81.7%