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Seattle, Washington

University of Washington School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1924
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
165
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.76
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$45,927
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
207
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
83.1%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
92.6%
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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2018

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2018)
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Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications2,946Not applicable
Offers of admission778Not applicable
Acceptance rate26.4%Not applicable
First-year enrollment174174
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th158 / 163 / 165158 / 163 / 165
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.44 / 3.69 / 3.803.44 / 3.69 / 3.80
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2018, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 158 · Median 163 · 75th 165
LSAT: published 25th percentile 158, median 163, 75th percentile 165.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.44 · Median 3.69 · 75th 3.80
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.44, median 3.69, 75th percentile 3.80.

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 2018. 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 (2018)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
492
1L
174
2L
161
3L
157
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
171

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
0.6%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
8
1L transfers out
3
Transfer GPA median
3.52

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