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Washington, District of Columbia

The George Washington University Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1923
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
168
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.86
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$75,420
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
612
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
89.8%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
87.7%
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.

Latest verified year

First-year class — fall 2025

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2025)
Covers
Report year 2025
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-timePart-time
Completed applications9,718Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission2,644Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate27.2%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment61257636
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th162 / 168 / 170163 / 168 / 170159 / 166 / 168
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.55 / 3.86 / 3.933.54 / 3.86 / 3.923.59 / 3.88 / 3.96
Students with GRE scores550
Students with JD-Next scores101

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 162 · Median 168 · 75th 170
LSAT: published 25th percentile 162, median 168, 75th percentile 170.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.55 · Median 3.86 · 75th 3.93
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.55, median 3.86, 75th percentile 3.93.

The school did not publish full GRE percentiles for this class, so a GRE comparison is not shown. PreLaw Advisor does not convert GRE scores into LSAT equivalents.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2025. Being above or below a published percentile does not determine an admissions decision.

J.D. enrollment

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — JD Enrollment and Ethnicity (2025)
Covers
Report year 2025
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
1,728
1L
612
2L
569
3L
534
4L
13
J.D. degrees awarded
568

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
1%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
46
1L transfers out
33
Transfer GPA median
3.41

Transfer GPA percentiles are only published when a school admits 12 or more transfer students.