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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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2020

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications6,986Not applicable
Offers of admission1,166Not applicable
Acceptance rate16.7%Not applicable
First-year enrollment394394
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th169 / 172 / 173169 / 172 / 173
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.72 / 3.82 / 3.913.72 / 3.82 / 3.91
Students with GRE scores18Not reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2020, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 169 · Median 172 · 75th 173
LSAT: published 25th percentile 169, median 172, 75th percentile 173.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.72 · Median 3.82 · 75th 3.91
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.72, median 3.82, 75th percentile 3.91.
GRE Verbal25th 164 · Median 166 · 75th 170
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 164, median 166, 75th percentile 170.
GRE Quantitative25th 156 · Median 162 · 75th 168
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 156, median 162, 75th percentile 168.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2020. 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 (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
1,263
1L
394
2L
406
3L
463
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
428

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
0%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.1%
Transfers in
48
1L transfers out
4
Transfer GPA median
3.85

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