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 — 2019 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2020 report)
Covers: Report year 2020
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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School pass rate

92.7%

Weighted jurisdiction rate

77.1%

Difference

+15.61 pts

First-time takers

696

645 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	207	188	90.8%	84.1%	+6.70
District of Columbia	188	179	95.2%	72.1%	+23.13
25 Remaining Jurisdictions	68	63	92.7%	74%	+18.70
California	52	49	94.2%	69.1%	+25.12
Maryland	41	40	97.6%	77.7%	+19.83
Virginia	30	27	90%	77.9%	+12.14
Florida	27	23	85.2%	70.2%	+14.95
Massachusetts	21	20	95.2%	82.1%	+13.19
Pennsylvania	20	18	90%	79.7%	+10.34
Illinois	17	14	82.4%	74.1%	+8.25
Texas	13	12	92.3%	77.4%	+14.94
Colorado	12	12	100%	76.9%	+23.11

Ultimate bar passage — 2017 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2020 report)
Covers: Report year 2020
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Ultimate pass rate

95.9%

Within two years of graduation

Graduates

674

Takers

650

Passers

623

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%