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 — 2025-2026

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 (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
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	$61,580	$1,700
Full-time · nonresident	$61,580	$1,700
Part-time · per credit (resident)	$2,125	$1,130

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 (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Living on campus$27,168
Living off campus$32,374
Living at home$16,222
Living on a military base$14,794

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$61,580
Mandatory fees$1,700
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$32,374

PreLaw Advisor total$95,654

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 (2025–2026 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
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	374	273	101
Receiving grants	369	271	98
% receiving grants	99%	99%	97%
Less than half tuition	185	141	44
Half to full tuition	183	129	54
Full tuition	0	0	0
More than full tuition	1	1	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$15,727	$8,906
Median grant	Not applicable	$26,000	$22,500
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$45,000	$32,503

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 (2025)
Covers: Report year 2025
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 2024-202545 received · 12 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2023-202428 received · 7 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2022-202356 received · 20 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.