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Catholic law employment statistics: 19.5% (22 of 113; bands 101-250 6, 251-500 4, 501+ 12; whole class) into firms over 100 lawyers and 92.9% (105 of 113; whole class) employed at ten months, both for the whole graduating class since the ABA summary does not split by division, with top markets of DC 41, MD 24, VA 17 (whole class).
19.5% (22 of 113; bands 101-250 6, 251-500 4, 501+ 12; whole class) of the Class of 2025 went to firms of more than 100 lawyers, from Catholic's own ABA employment reporting (https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2026-employmentclassof2025.pdf). That figure covers the whole graduating class: the ABA summary does not split outcomes by division.
Overall employment at the ten-month date was 92.9% (105 of 113; whole class), from the same source, which is the strongest figure among the four DC schools in this build.
Large-firm placement is the number most people mean by outcomes and it is worth reading beside the clerkship and market rows rather than alone.
1.8% (2 of 113; state and local clerkships a separate 23; whole class) took federal clerkships, from the same report (https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2026-employmentclassof2025.pdf). The state and local clerkship row is far larger at 23 of 113, which is roughly a fifth of the class.
That ratio is the DC-region signature. Local and state courts in the District, Maryland and Virginia hire in volume, and a school concentrated in that market places into them.
If a clerkship is your goal, the state and local number is the one to plan against here, and it is more than eleven times the federal figure.
Top markets are DC 41, MD 24, VA 17 (whole class), from the same reporting, again for the whole class rather than by division.
Read the concentration rather than the list. Catholic is a Washington regional school whose network reaches the District and its two neighboring states, which is exactly where most of its graduates want to be.
The part-time evening division sharpens that further, because evening students are typically already working in the region and stay in it.
OutcomeClass of 2025Division reportedSourceEmployed at ten months92.9% (105 of 113; whole class)Whole classhttps://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2026-employmentclassof2025.pdfFirms over 100 lawyers19.5% (22 of 113; bands 101-250 6, 251-500 4, 501+ 12; whole class)Whole classhttps://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2026-employmentclassof2025.pdfFederal clerkships1.8% (2 of 113; state and local clerkships a separate 23; whole class)Whole classhttps://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2026-employmentclassof2025.pdfTop marketsDC 41, MD 24, VA 17 (whole class)Whole classhttps://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2026-employmentclassof2025.pdfGraduates in the class113 (whole class)Whole classhttps://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2026-employmentclassof2025.pdf
Catholic runs a full-time day division and a part-time evening division, and its 2025 509 reports some figures by division and others for both together (https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdf). Reading a part-time applicant against a full-time percentile is the commonest way to misjudge this school.
So every figure here is labelled. Where the school reports in aggregate we say aggregate rather than quietly presenting it as the full-time number.
That matters most on the LSAT and GPA bands, which are the full-time division only. Catholic does not publish separate part-time percentiles in its 509, so we do not state any.
FigureWhich division it describesApplicants, offers and acceptance rateBoth divisions together. The 509 reports these in aggregate and does not split themLSAT and GPA percentilesFull-time divisionMatriculantsBoth divisions, itemized: 182 total, being 139 full-time and 43 part-timeTuitionReported separately: $61,580 a year full-time plus $1,700 fees, against $2,125 per credit part-time plus $1,130 feesCost of attendanceFull-time, off-campus. Derived from the 509's own tuition, fee and living lines because the report prints no totalGrant median and reachBoth divisions together at 369 of 374 students; the full-time division alone is 271 of 273EmploymentWhole graduating class. The ABA employment summary does not split outcomes by division
Salary. The ABA summary reports status and employer type, not pay, and our verified fact set holds no salary figure for this school.
Which division got which outcome. The employment summary treats the graduating class as one group, so nothing here distinguishes a full-time graduate's result from an evening graduate's, and we are not going to guess at the split.
Who got what within the class. Large-firm jobs concentrate at the top of any curve, so a median student's odds are not the class average.
Full-time tuition is $61,580 a year plus $1,700 in fees, against a part-time rate of $2,125 per credit plus $1,130 in fees, both from the 2025 509 (https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdf).
The full-time cost of attendance is $95,654 full-time off-campus (509-derived: tuition plus fees plus the 509 off-campus living line; $90,448 on-campus). The 509 prints no total. Catholic publishes no equivalent part-time total, which is ordinary for a per-credit program and means an evening student has to build their own budget from the credit rate.
Against either, the 509 reports unusually broad grant reach: 99% (369 of 374; both divisions) across both divisions, with the full-time division alone at 271 of 273 students, and a median grant of $26,000 (both divisions). Almost nobody here pays sticker.
Georgetown's 2025 ABA Standard 509 report shows 120 students transferring in, and 51 of them came from schools in the DC market (https://www.law.georgetown.edu/admissions-aid/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/12/Std509InfoReport-63-12-17-2025-13-38-17.pdf). Close to half its transfer intake is drawn from one metro.
Catholic sent 1 of them. One is a small number and it is a published one, which is more than can be said for almost anything else written about transferring.
It is on this page because it is the least-discussed route out of a regional DC school and because neither end of it has any reason to advertise. Georgetown does not market its transfer intake and no feeder school markets its outflow.
DC-market schoolTransfers into Georgetown, 2025 509Maryland Carey5Howard3Catholic1UDC1All DC-market schools51All schools120
Against 113 (whole class) graduates in the Class of 2025, a single transfer is a route for the very top of a first-year class rather than a plan available to most students. We are not going to inflate it into a strategy.
Transfer admission runs on first-year class rank above everything else, and no school publishes a transfer GPA band, Georgetown included. Anyone quoting you a cutline has made it up.
What the 51 of 120 figure does establish is that the pathway is real and structurally regional. Being in this market is itself part of the qualification, and it is the part you cannot acquire later.
The cost is rarely priced: you leave the class you know, possibly a journal cycle you already competed for, and the faculty who would write your clerkship letters. None of that is on a 509.
Our master admissions file carries detailed committee texture for 31 schools: what the essay has to do, how hard the school protects yield, how it uses interviews, and how it behaves on scholarship. Catholic is not one of the 31.
So this page makes no claim about how Catholic's committee reads a file. Everything here comes from what Catholic itself publishes: its ABA Standard 509 report and its own admissions pages.
A page that filled that gap with plausible-sounding advice would be indistinguishable from one that knew something, which is exactly why we would rather leave the hole visible. If you want committee-level read on this school, the honest source is the admissions office.
Put your own numbers beside the bands first. Catholic publishes 157 (full-time) to 163 (full-time) on the LSAT and 3.53 (full-time) to 3.85 (full-time) on GPA, from its 2025 509 (https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdf), and everything else follows from where you land in those.
Then price it against the 509 again: total cost of $95,654 full-time off-campus (509-derived: tuition plus fees plus the 509 off-campus living line; $90,448 on-campus). The 509 prints no total against a median grant of $26,000 (both divisions) reaching 99% (369 of 374; both divisions) of students. Three years of the gap is the number that will still matter in a decade.
Then decide what you would do with the degree, because a school's value is mostly a statement about a market rather than about a ranking, and the market is the part you cannot change from inside.
If any of those three is unresolved, that is the work to do next, and it is more useful than reading another page about this school.
Open https://www.law.edu/admissions/overview/apply-now/index.html and confirm every deadline, prompt and requirement against the live application, because everything on this page carries a date for a reason.
Place yourself against the published bands rather than the acceptance rate: 157 (full-time) to 163 (full-time) on the LSAT and 3.53 (full-time) to 3.85 (full-time) on GPA, from the 2025 509 (https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdf). Your position there decides what the rest of the application has to do.
Decide what this school is to you before drafting anything: a reach where the file must argue, a match where it must not get in the way, or a safety where the real question is how much money you can extract. Those are three different applications.
Every Catholic figure on this page was read from Catholic's own 2025 ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosure Report at https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdf, and recorded in our data sheet with that URL against each individual field rather than as a single citation at the bottom.
Application mechanics come from Catholic's own admissions pages at https://www.law.edu/admissions/overview/apply-now/index.html. Where our sheet holds a field as unverified, this page says so instead of presenting it as settled.
The 509 refiles every December, so every number here has a known expiry date. We would rather you knew that date than trusted the page indefinitely.
Every LSAC figure on this page was taken from LSAC's own pages and last checked on July 26, 2026. Prices, dates and policies move without notice, so the source link sits next to each number rather than in a bibliography at the bottom.
Where LSAC has not published something, this page says so in those words rather than filling the hole with a plausible number. That is the difference between a gap and a guess, and only one of them is safe to plan around.
19.5% (22 of 113; bands 101-250 6, 251-500 4, 501+ 12; whole class) of the Class of 2025 went to firms over 100 lawyers, per the school's own ABA employment report. That figure covers the whole graduating class; the ABA summary does not split outcomes by division.
1.8% (2 of 113; state and local clerkships a separate 23; whole class) took federal clerkships. The state and local clerkship row is far larger at 23 of 113, which is the more relevant figure in this market.
Top markets are DC 41, MD 24, VA 17 (whole class), for the whole class. Catholic is a Washington regional school and its network reaches the District and its two neighboring states.
No. The ABA employment summary treats the graduating class as one group, so no published figure distinguishes a full-time graduate's outcome from an evening graduate's.
Georgetown's own 2025 509 shows 120 transfers in with 51 from DC-market schools, and Catholic sent 1. It runs on first-year class rank, and no school publishes a transfer cutline.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026