Georgetown University

Director of admissions

Andy Cornblatt

Application deadline

02/01

Full-time program application fee

$80

Part-time program application fee

$80

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

10,688

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

2,554

Overall acceptance rate

Total number of full- and part-time first-year students enrolled

585

Number of full-time program applicants

9,815

Number of full-time program acceptances

2,366

Full-time acceptance rate

24.1%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

458

Number of part-time program applicants

873

Number of part-time program acceptances

188

Part-time acceptance rate

21.5%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

127

25th-75th percentile GPA scores for all students

25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for all students

25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for full-time students

3.42-3.81

25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for full-time students

167-172

25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for part-time students

3.44-3.77

25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for part-time students

162-167

State where the greatest number of first-time test takers took the bar

NY

School’s bar passage rate for first-time test takers

93.8%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

76.7%

Total graduates

650

Graduates employed at graduation

94.7%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$145,000

Median private sector starting salary

$160,000

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$160,000

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

66%

Median public service starting salary

$50,500

Percent employed in academia

0.2%

Percent employed in business and industry

4.6%

Percent employed in government

7.3%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

9.4%

Percent employed in law firms

70.1%

Percent employed in public interest

4.5%

Percent employed in an unknown field

3.8%

Percent employed in a judicial clerkship by an Article III federal judge

5.8%

Graduates employed in-state

34%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

1%

Number of states where graduates are employed

35

New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)

3.2%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

26.5%

East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)

3.7%

West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD)

0.8%

South Atlantic (DE, DC, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)

42.0%

East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN)

0.6%

West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)

2.4%

Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)

9.9%

Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY)

1.4%

Employment location unknown

8.3%

Career services operations: Georgetown University Law Center has one of the largest and most comprehensive career services operations in the country. Together, the Office of Career Services (OCS) and the Office of Public Interest and Community Service (OPICS) provide a range of counseling and programming resources that link students and alumni/ae with employers in the private sector, government, and public interest.

Bar admission required or anticipated (e.g., attorney and corporate counsel positions, law clerks, judicial clerks)

92.2%

J.D. preferred, law degree enhances position (e.g., corporate contracts administrator, alternative dispute resolution specialist, government regulatory analyst, FBI special agent)

1.1%

Professional/other (jobs that require professional skills or training but for which a J.D. is neither preferred nor particularly applicable; e.g., accountant, teacher, business manager, nurse)

2.2%

Nonprofessional/other (job that does not require any professional skills or training or is taken on a temporary basis and not viewed as part of a career path)

0.2%