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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 2021

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2021)
Covers
Report year 2021
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 applications1,493Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission593Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate39.7%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment16112239
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th155 / 158 / 160155 / 158 / 160153 / 157 / 160
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.33 / 3.50 / 3.673.37 / 3.51 / 3.683.14 / 3.41 / 3.66
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 155 · Median 158 · 75th 160
LSAT: published 25th percentile 155, median 158, 75th percentile 160.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.33 · Median 3.50 · 75th 3.67
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.33, median 3.50, 75th percentile 3.67.

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 2021. 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 (2021)
Covers
Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
406
1L
161
2L
103
3L
120
4L
22
J.D. degrees awarded
118

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
5.1%
1L other attrition
2.5%
Upper-level academic attrition
4.3%
Transfers in
2
1L transfers out
8
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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