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Catholic law school tuition: tuition of $61,580 full-time plus $1,700 fees; part-time $2,125 per credit plus $1,130 fees against a total cost of attendance of $95,654 full-time off-campus (509-derived: tuition plus fees plus the 509 off-campus living line; $90,448 on-campus).
Tuition is $61,580 full-time plus $1,700 fees; part-time $2,125 per credit plus $1,130 fees and the total 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 per year, from Catholic's own 2025 509 (https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdf).
Against that, the same 509 gives a median grant of $26,000 (both divisions) reaching 99% (369 of 374; both divisions) of students.
Sticker is the wrong number to plan with and the right number to start from, because it is the only one that is certain before you hold an offer.
Cost figurePer yearOver three yearsSourceTuition$61,580 full-time plus $1,700 fees; part-time $2,125 per credit plus $1,130 feesmultiply by threehttps://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdfTotal cost of attendance$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 totalmultiply by threehttps://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdfMedian grant$26,000 (both divisions)if renewed each yearhttps://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdfShare receiving a grant99% (369 of 374; both divisions)not a guarantee of renewalhttps://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdfFederal borrowing cap$50,000 a year$200,000 aggregateFederal Register, RISE final rule
Per the 509 and the school's own cost page, the figure 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 per year, being tuition plus the published living-expense allowance rather than anything we assembled (https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdf).
Three years at that number is the arithmetic worth doing before you apply rather than after you are admitted. Do it at sticker and again at the median grant; the two answers will be far apart.
One thing changed in 2026 and belongs in the same calculation. Federal borrowing for professional programs is capped at $50,000 a year and $200,000 aggregate with Grad PLUS eliminated, effective July 1 2026 under the Reimagining and Improving Student Education final rule (Federal Register, RISE final rule (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/01/2026-08556/reimagining-and-improving-student-education-federal-student-loan-program-final-regulations)), which attributes the caps to the Working Families Tax Cuts Act.
The outcome side is 19.5% (22 of 113; bands 101-250 6, 251-500 4, 501+ 12; whole class) of the class into firms over 100 lawyers and 92.9% (105 of 113; whole class) employed at ten months, with top markets of DC 41, MD 24, VA 17 (whole class), from the school's own ABA reporting (https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2026-employmentclassof2025.pdf).
We are not going to hand you a verdict, because the answer depends on your award, your target practice and your tolerance for debt, and none of those are published.
The honest framing: a strong placement rate at a heavy discount is a straightforward yes, the same rate at full sticker under the new borrowing caps is a real decision, and no page can make it for you.
No ABA 509 report publishes grant size by LSAT or GPA band, at any school. The median grant therefore describes the whole entering class rather than predicting your letter.
Money follows the numbers, and the further above a median you sit the more of it follows. That direction is reliable; the magnitude is not published anywhere.
Renewal conditions are the other unpublished variable. Some awards carry a GPA condition and 509 reports do not disclose them, so ask in writing before comparing two offers.
Bar study. The months between graduation and admission carry living costs and a prep course, and no cost-of-attendance figure includes them.
Your own circumstances. The living-expense line is a school-set allowance rather than a budget, and it will be wrong for you in one direction or the other.
Interest. Every figure here is principal, and three years of accrual on a six-figure balance is not a rounding error.
Figure2025 reporting yearSourceApplicants1867https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdfOffers605https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdfAcceptance rate32.4% (both divisions)https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdfLSAT 25th / median / 75th157 (full-time) / 161 (full-time) / 163 (full-time)https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdfGPA 25th / median / 75th3.53 (full-time) / 3.70 (full-time) / 3.85 (full-time)https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdfMedian grant$26,000 (both divisions)https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdfShare receiving a grant99% (369 of 374; both divisions)https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdfTotal cost per year$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 totalhttps://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2025-CatholicLaw-Std509InfoReport.pdf
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.
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
Our sheet records Catholic's top markets as DC 41, MD 24, VA 17 (whole class), from its own ABA employment reporting (https://www.law.edu/_media/aba-info/2026-employmentclassof2025.pdf). Read the concentration rather than the list.
Alongside that, 19.5% (22 of 113; bands 101-250 6, 251-500 4, 501+ 12; whole class) of the class went to firms over 100 lawyers and 1.8% (2 of 113; state and local clerkships a separate 23; whole class) took federal clerkships, from the same reporting.
In the Washington market specifically, those two numbers pull in different directions. Federal agencies, the Hill and the public interest sector employ heavily and appear in neither the large-firm column nor the clerkship column, so a modest large-firm rate here does not mean what it would mean in New York.
That is the honest way to read a DC school's outcomes: the large-firm figure describes one route out of several, and the geography column tells you which city's version of all of them you are buying into.
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.
Tuition is $61,580 full-time plus $1,700 fees; part-time $2,125 per credit plus $1,130 fees, with a total cost of attendance 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 per year, from the school's own 2025 509 report.
$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 per year as published, being tuition plus the school's own living-expense allowance.
That depends on your award and your target practice. The outcome side is 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.
Not automatically. Some awards carry conditions and 509 reports do not disclose them, so ask in writing before comparing offers.
Under the Federal Register's RISE final rule, borrowing for professional programs is capped at $50,000 a year and $200,000 aggregate with Grad PLUS eliminated from July 1 2026, so any gap above that closes privately or not at all.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026