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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 2024

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2024)
Covers
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 applications620Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission230Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate37.1%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment693930
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th148 / 150 / 154148 / 149 / 153150 / 151 / 156
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.81 / 3.18 / 3.513.09 / 3.29 / 3.532.72 / 2.94 / 3.41
Students with GRE scores000
Students with JD-Next scores000

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 148 · Median 150 · 75th 154
LSAT: published 25th percentile 148, median 150, 75th percentile 154.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.81 · Median 3.18 · 75th 3.51
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.81, median 3.18, 75th percentile 3.51.

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 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
235
1L
70
2L
75
3L
69
4L
21
J.D. degrees awarded
63

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
3%
1L other attrition
5%
Upper-level academic attrition
1%
Transfers in
2
1L transfers out
8
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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