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Law School Bar Exam Pass Rates: Compare Your School’s Performance

For aspiring attorneys, passing the bar exam is a critical step toward a successful legal career. Law school graduates invest years of hard work, and their first-time bar passage rate can be an important indicator of their school’s effectiveness in preparing them for practice.

Below, we break down the average first-time bar examination pass rates for law schools. A positive number in the Difference column indicates a law school outperformed the weighted average, while a negative number means the school underperformed compared to the average.

How Does Your Law School’s Bar Exam Pass Rate Compare?

“School Pass Rate” is how the law school’s graduates performed across all jurisdictions where they took the bar examination for the first time.

“Avg. Pass Rate” is the average pass rate for graduates from ABA-accredited law schools for each jurisdiction in which the law school’s graduates sat for the bar exam.  This number is weighted so that bar pass rates from jurisdictions where more of the law school’s graduates sat for the bar have a greater impact in the ABA weighted average bar pass rate than bar pass rates from jurisdictions where fewer of the law school’s graduates sat for the bar exam.

“Difference” is the difference between the law school pass rate and the weighted average bar pass rate compares the performance of the law School’s graduates on the bar exam in all jurisdictions where they took the bar exam for the first time with the performance of graduates from all ABA accredited law schools on the bar exam in those jurisdictions.

The average School Pass Rate, regardless of jurisdiction was 79.18%.

 

Source – The American Bar Association

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