New York, New York

Columbia Law School

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1923
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2017-2018

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
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	$67,564	Not reported
Full-time · nonresident	$67,564	Not reported

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$23,080
Living off campus$23,080
Living at home$7,020

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$67,564
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$23,080

PreLaw Advisor total$90,644

Not included (not published): Mandatory fees.

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 (2017–2018 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
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	1,234	1,234	Not applicable
Receiving grants	653	653	Not applicable
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not applicable
Less than half tuition	436	436	Not applicable
Half to full tuition	153	153	Not applicable
Full tuition	64	64	Not applicable
More than full tuition	0	0	Not applicable
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$12,000	Not applicable
Median grant	Not applicable	$22,000	Not applicable
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$31,524	Not applicable

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 (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2016-20170 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2015-20160 received · 0 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2014-20150 received · 0 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.