Law School Rankings By Bar Exam Overperformance

The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar yesterday released comprehensive data on bar passage outcomes for ABA-accredited law schools. Here are the 56 law schools that outperformed their state's average bar pass rate for first-time takers in 2019 by at least 10% (the full data for all 199 law schools is here):

		School Pass Rate	State Pass Rate	Difference
1	GEORGIA	91.76%	67.78%	23.98%
2	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL	94.81%	70.92%	23.89%
3	WISCONSIN	100.00%	76.99%	23.01%
4	MARQUETTE	99.44%	77.00%	22.44%
5	GEORGIA STATE	86.91%	65.92%	20.99%
6	STANFORD	95.32%	74.35%	20.97%
7	CHICAGO	96.45%	76.32%	20.13%
8	HARVARD	98.93%	79.01%	19.92%
9	YALE	96.26%	77.38%	18.88%
10	DUKE	97.70%	78.98%	18.72%
11	UCLA	89.46%	70.94%	18.52%
12	UC-BERKELEY	90.37%	71.88%	18.49%
13	MICHIGAN	95.39%	77.18%	18.21%
14	VIRGINIA	95.79%	77.69%	18.10%
15	ILLINOIS	92.50%	74.74%	17.76%
16	USC	87.73%	70.06%	17.67%
17	PENNSYLVANIA	97.07%	79.69%	17.38%
18	VANDERBILT	94.15%	77.27%	16.88%
19	TEXAS	93.29%	77.10%	16.19%
20	FLORIDA	87.12%	71.09%	16.03%
21	FLORIDA STATE	86.71%	70.78%	15.93%
22	NORTHWESTERN	91.97%	76.05%	15.92%
23	BELMONT	96.25%	80.56%	15.69%
24	GEORGETOWN	92.67%	76.99%	15.68%
25	NEW HAMPSHIRE	87.09%	72.22%	14.87%
26	LIBERTY	92.00%	77.25%	14.75%
27	NOTRE DAME	90.16%	75.69%	14.47%
28	UC-DAVIS	84.46%	70.01%	14.45%
29	MERCER	81.25%	66.98%	14.27%
30	NORTH CAROLINA	92.50%	78.85%	13.65%
31	COLUMBIA	95.11%	81.48%	13.63%
32	IOWA	92.59%	79.02%	13.57%
33	NYU	95.96%	82.48%	13.48%
34	SETON HALL	90.44%	76.99%	13.45%
35	MINNESOTA	93.04%	79.62%	13.42%
36	WILLIAM & MARY	90.91%	77.53%	13.38%
37	BAYLOR	90.32%	77.29%	13.03%
38	TEXAS A&M	90.32%	77.34%	12.98%
39	GEORGE MASON	87.90%	75.07%	12.83%
40	WASHINGTON & LEE	89.72%	76.99%	12.73%
41	INDIANA - BLOOMINGTON	88.19%	75.47%	12.72%
42	GEORGE WASHINGTON	88.02%	75.35%	12.67%
43	ARIZONA STATE	86.69%	74.17%	12.52%
44	PEPPERDINE	82.42%	70.17%	12.25%
45	ALABAMA	93.65%	81.72%	11.93%
46	CORNELL	93.79%	81.97%	11.82%
47	UC-IRVINE	81.49%	69.74%	11.75%
48	CAMPBELL	91.51%	79.86%	11.65%
49	LOYOLA-CHICAGO	85.32%	74.10%	11.22%
50	WAKE FOREST	90.00%	78.86%	11.14%
51	COLORADO	87.50%	76.54%	10.96%
51	WAYNE STATE	81.51%	70.55%	10.96%
53	BOSTON UNIVERSITY	91.60%	80.73%	10.87%
54	EMORY	82.82%	72.02%	10.80%
55	BOSTON COLLEGE	91.46%	80.99%	10.47%
56	WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY	89.13%	78.70%	10.43%

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