State-By-State Comparison Of Bar Pass Rates

Law.com, Bar Pass Rates: Compare the States:

The ABA this year overhauled the way it reports schools’ bar pass rates in a bid to get that information out to the public faster, and to make it easier to compare data across schools.

We’re taking a deeper dive into the numbers this week. Today, we’re focusing on the first-time bar pass rates of individual states, which vary widely. In our first report on Tuesday, we looked at the first-time bar pass rates of each law school in 2017, and how they performed in comparison to state averages.

Here are the five states with the highest first time bar taker pass rates:

Here are the five states with the lowest first time bar taker pass rates: