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.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2023-2024

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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	$57,216	$1,700
Full-time · nonresident	$57,216	$1,700
Part-time · per credit (resident)	$1,973	$1,270

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$25,310
Living off campus$30,670
Living at home$15,420

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$57,216
Mandatory fees$1,700
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$30,670

PreLaw Advisor total$89,586

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 (2023–2024 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
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	407	281	126
Receiving grants	401	279	122
% receiving grants	99%	99%	97%
Less than half tuition	171	117	54
Half to full tuition	153	109	44
Full tuition	74	51	23
More than full tuition	3	2	1
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$15,076	$6,625
Median grant	Not applicable	$30,000	$18,750
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$45,820	$30,000

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 (2023)
Covers: Report year 2023
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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The school reports offering conditional scholarships (awards that can be reduced or eliminated, e.g. for grades).

Entering 2022-202356 received · 19 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2021-202254 received · 20 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2020-202133 received · 12 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.