Columbia Law School

The 2020-2021 tuition & fees at Columbia Law School is $72,360. This cost is different from the costs of other undergraduate and graduate programs. For major programs other than law at Columbia University in the City of New York, the average undergraduate tuition & fees are $60,532. The average graduate program tuition & fees are $51,194. The average living costs including room & board and other living expenses is $14,614 when a student lives on-campus (i.e. dormitory, school owned apartment) and $23,715 when a student lives off-campus. The following table summarizes the tuition & fees, and other college costs for Columbia Law School

The average GPA of Columbia Law School is 3.8 and the average LSAT score is 172. The GPA is the average value of submitted scores from 347 pre-admitted and enrolled first-year students and the average LSAT score is computed over submitted scores from 356 students. The following table summarizes the GPA and LSAT scores by 25^th, 50^th, and 75^th percentiles.

For the academic year 2020-2021, total 7,193 students have applied to Columbia Law School and 1,141 students have accepted to get into the school. Among the admitted students, 329 students finally have enrolled into the school. The acceptance rate is 15.86% and the yield, also known as enrollment rate, is 28.83% at Columbia Law School. With 35 pre-admitted students, total 364 first-year students enrolled in Columbia Law School.

Last year, total 430 students took the bar exam first time at Columbia Law School. Among them, 409 students passed the exam and the bar exam pass rate is 95.11%. For reference, the average pass rate at New York law schools is 81.48%. The following table shows the bar exam pass rate for first time exam takers at Columbia Law School.