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Washington, District of Columbia

Georgetown Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1924
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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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 — 2020 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2021 report)
Covers
Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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School pass rate
94.6%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
79.5%
Difference
+15.13 pts
First-time takers
631
597 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
JurisdictionTakersPassersSchool %Jurisdiction %Difference
District of Columbia18617996.2%75%+21.23
New York17116697.1%85.9%+11.15
23 Remaining Jurisdictions736893.2%79.5%+13.65
California665887.9%77.9%+10.02
Maryland363597.2%76.9%+20.29
Virginia242395.8%84.3%+11.53
New Jersey201785%70.6%+14.36
Illinois171694.1%81%+13.13
Pennsylvania151493.3%80.1%+13.27
Massachusetts131292.3%84.5%+7.84
Texas10990%75.1%+14.86

Ultimate bar passage — 2018 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2021 report)
Covers
Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Ultimate pass rate
95.5%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
628
Takers
596
Passers
569

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 classSchoolJurisdictions
202594.6%85.2%
202493.1%83.3%
202390.5%80.8%
202291.6%79%
202193.2%80.6%
202094.6%79.5%
201992.7%77.1%
201890.2%73.3%
201792.5%76.5%