Washington, District of Columbia

Georgetown Law

Accreditation: ABA approved since 1924
Institution type: Private
J.D. formats: Full-time and Part-time J.D.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

Median LSAT: 171; Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA: 3.93; Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition: $83,576; Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class: 672; Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs: 91.6%; Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage: 94.6%; 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.

First-time bar passage — 2018 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2019 report)
Covers: Report year 2019
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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School pass rate

90.2%

Weighted jurisdiction rate

73.3%

Difference

+16.97 pts

First-time takers

665

600 passed

The weighted jurisdiction rate is the average first-time pass rate in the jurisdictions where this school’s graduates tested, weighted by the number of takers. It gives context for the school’s own rate.

First-time results by jurisdiction
Jurisdiction	Takers	Passers	School %	Jurisdiction %	Difference
New York	187	177	94.7%	81.3%	+13.35
District of Columbia	180	171	95%	69.8%	+25.21
21 Remaining Jurisdictions	70	60	85.7%	73.3%	+12.41
California	66	55	83.3%	60.3%	+22.99
Virginia	33	28	84.9%	76.4%	+8.47
Massachusetts	27	26	96.3%	79.6%	+16.70
Florida	25	23	92%	65.2%	+26.85
Pennsylvania	25	19	76%	76.8%	-0.84
Maryland	24	16	66.7%	66%	+0.65
Illinois	16	15	93.8%	76.2%	+17.52
Texas	12	10	83.3%	73.1%	+10.21

Ultimate bar passage — 2016 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2019 report)
Covers: Report year 2019
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Ultimate pass rate

94.4%

Within two years of graduation

Graduates

645

Takers

621

Passers

586

Ultimate passage counts graduates who passed any bar exam within two years of graduating. It is a different measure from first-time passage and covers an earlier graduating class.

First-time passage history

First-time pass rate by graduating class
Graduating class	School	Jurisdictions
2025	94.6%	85.2%
2024	93.1%	83.3%
2023	90.5%	80.8%
2022	91.6%	79%
2021	93.2%	80.6%
2020	94.6%	79.5%
2019	92.7%	77.1%
2018	90.2%	73.3%
2017	92.5%	76.5%