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 — 2024 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2025 report)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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School pass rate

93.1%

Weighted jurisdiction rate

83.3%

Difference

+9.76 pts

First-time takers

633

589 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
District of Columbia	268	251	93.7%	85%	+8.65
New York	176	168	95.5%	86.3%	+9.15
20 Remaining Jurisdictions	65	62	95.4%	78.7%	+16.69
California	53	43	81.1%	77.6%	+3.51
Virginia	15	13	86.7%	75.9%	+10.82
Texas	15	14	93.3%	81.5%	+11.85
Maryland	14	12	85.7%	69.5%	+16.21
Massachusetts	14	14	100%	84.3%	+15.66
Illinois	13	12	92.3%	78.6%	+13.67

Ultimate bar passage — 2022 graduates

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2025 report)
Covers: Report year 2025
Retrieved: Sep 23, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 23, 2026

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Ultimate pass rate

94.2%

Within two years of graduation

Graduates

655

Takers

632

Passers

595

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%