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Washington, District of Columbia

Columbus School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1925
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
161
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.68
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$61,580
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
182
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
79.6%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
90.4%
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 2018

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2018)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-timePart-time
Completed applications1,177Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission605Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate51.4%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment13810929
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th150 / 153 / 156149 / 153 / 156150 / 155 / 157
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.17 / 3.41 / 3.583.24 / 3.42 / 3.593.08 / 3.31 / 3.49
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 150 · Median 153 · 75th 156
LSAT: published 25th percentile 150, median 153, 75th percentile 156.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.17 · Median 3.41 · 75th 3.58
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.17, median 3.41, 75th percentile 3.58.

The school did not publish full GRE percentiles for this class, so a GRE comparison is not shown. PreLaw Advisor does not convert GRE scores into LSAT equivalents.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2018. 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 (2018)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
375
1L
138
2L
101
3L
101
4L
35
J.D. degrees awarded
97

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
5.1%
1L other attrition
0.9%
Upper-level academic attrition
0.4%
Transfers in
4
1L transfers out
11
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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