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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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2024

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2024)
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Report year 2024
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 applications8,091Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission2,637Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate32.6%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment52750225
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th159 / 168 / 169159 / 168 / 169157 / 168 / 168
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.62 / 3.87 / 3.933.63 / 3.87 / 3.933.32 / 3.78 / 3.90
Students with GRE scores12120
Students with JD-Next scores000

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 159 · Median 168 · 75th 169
LSAT: published 25th percentile 159, median 168, 75th percentile 169.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.62 · Median 3.87 · 75th 3.93
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.62, median 3.87, 75th percentile 3.93.
GRE Verbal25th 154 · Median 158 · 75th 159
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 154, median 158, 75th percentile 159.
GRE Quantitative25th 152 · Median 154 · 75th 159
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 152, median 154, 75th percentile 159.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2024. 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 (2024)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
1,677
1L
540
2L
567
3L
557
4L
13
J.D. degrees awarded
551

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
2%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
63
1L transfers out
39
Transfer GPA median
3.36

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