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Washington, District of Columbia

University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1991
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
151
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.28
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$12,438
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
83
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
52.5%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
57.9%
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 2023

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
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 applications530Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission235Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate44.3%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment866026
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th147 / 151 / 153148 / 151 / 153145 / 150 / 153
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.92 / 3.27 / 3.553.00 / 3.35 / 3.572.86 / 3.06 / 3.40
Students with GRE scores000
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 147 · Median 151 · 75th 153
LSAT: published 25th percentile 147, median 151, 75th percentile 153.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.92 · Median 3.27 · 75th 3.55
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.92, median 3.27, 75th percentile 3.55.

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 2023. 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 (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
248
1L
90
2L
68
3L
60
4L
30
J.D. degrees awarded
48

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
10%
1L other attrition
2%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
1
1L transfers out
4
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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