Monday, December 21, 2015
July 2015 California Bar Exam Results
The July 2015 California bar passage rates by school are out. Here are the results for first time test takers for the 21 California ABA-approved law schools, along with each school's U.S. News ranking (California and overall):
|
Bar Pass Rank (Rate) |
School |
US News Rank CA (Overall) |
|
1 (88.8%) |
Stanford |
1 (2) |
|
2 (86.7%) |
USC |
4 (20) |
|
3 (85.4%) |
UCLA |
3 (16) |
|
4 (84.8%) |
UC-Berkeley |
2 (8) |
|
5 (79.8%) |
UC-Irvine |
5 (30) |
|
6 (76.5%) |
Loyola-L.A. |
10 (75) |
|
7 (74.3%) |
UC-Davis |
6 (31) |
|
8 (72.0%) |
San Diego |
9 (71) |
|
9 (71.2%) |
Chapman |
12 (127) |
|
10 (69.9%) |
McGeorge |
Tier 2 |
|
11 (69.3%) |
Santa Clara |
11 (94) |
|
12 (68.7%) |
Pepperdine |
7 (52) |
|
68.2% |
Statewide Ave. (CA ABA-Approved) |
|
|
13 (67.5%) |
UC-Hastings |
8 (59) |
|
14 (59.9%) |
Cal-Western |
Tier 2 |
|
15 (55.6%) |
Western State |
Tier 2 |
|
16 (53.3%) |
La Verne |
n/r |
|
17 (50.6%) |
Southwestern |
Tier 2 |
|
18 (47.7%) |
T. Jefferson |
Tier 2 |
|
19 (47.4%) |
San Francisco |
Tier 2 |
|
20 (39.3%) |
Golden Gate |
Tier 2 |
|
21 (37.7%) |
Whittier |
Tier 2 |
One of the California-accredited law school (Lincoln Law School of Sacramento) had a higher pass rate (44.3% (23/52)) than two of the ABA-accredited law schools (Golden Gate (39.3%) and Whittier (37.7%)).
Here are the out-of-state schools with the highest and lowest pass rates:
- 93.3%: Yale (30 test-takers)
- 92.1%: Virginia (38)
- 89.7%: Chicago (29)
- 88.9%: Pennsylvania (18)
- 86.0%: Harvard (93)
- 85.7%: NYU (42)
- 84.9%: Michigan (53)
- 83.9%: Columbia (31)
- 83.3%: Texas (12)
- 27.3%: Minnesota (11)
- 27.0%: American (37)
- 25.0%: Michigan State (8), New England (12)
- 14.3%: Charlotte (7), Miami (7), Vermont (14)
- 12.5%: John Marshall-Chicago (8)
- 7.7%: Phoenix (13)
- 0.0%: Florida Coastal (4), Suffolk (10), Syracuse (13), Thomas Cooley (8)
Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:
- July 2014 Results
- July 2013 Results
- July 2012 Results
- July 2011 Results
- July 2010 Results
- July 2009 Results
- July 2008 Results
Update:
- Above the Law, California Bar Exam Results By Law School: Open Thread (July 2015)
- Brian Leiter (Chicago), California July 2015 Bar Exam Results by School
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2015/12/july-2015-california-bar-exam-results.html
It would be interesting to list the median LSAT scores of the schools too.
Posted by: Eric Rasmusen | Dec 22, 2015 1:40:48 PM