University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke

University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke received 749 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 277 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 37.0%. 82 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 29.6%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 83 students: 51 full time and 32 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 236.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 151, with a 25th percentile of 148 and a 75th of 153. That is 8 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 178 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.05 at the 25th percentile, 3.28 at the median and 3.55 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $12,438 for residents and $24,874 for non-residents, a gap of $12,436 a year. Mandatory fees add $1,000. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $34,035. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $59,909 for one year, or $179,727 across three, before any grant. 172 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 70% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $8,292. 6 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 40 of 61 passed, a rate of 65.57%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 80.64%, so the school ran 15.07 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 44 of 80 graduates (55.0%) held a job requiring bar admission. 2 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (2.5% of the class), of whom 1 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was District Of Columbia with 26 graduates, followed by Maryland with 16.

University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1998. It is a public school based in Washington, DC. 4 first-year students left for academic reasons, 5.0% of the class.

The full 509 record

District of Columbia has 6 ABA-approved law schools. The District of Columbia guide compares them on LSAT median, cost and bar passage, and covers the state's admission rules.

Data: ABA Standard 509 Information Report (2025), published for consumer disclosure, retrieved from the ABA Required Disclosures portal on 2026-09-01. Bar passage and employment figures come from the same portal's Bar Passage Outcomes and Employment Summary reports for the class of 2024. Figures describe the 2025 to 2026 reporting cycle for University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and are restated in our own structure; no ABA document or file is reproduced here. Verify anything decision-critical with the school.

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