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Monday, January 11, 2021

October 2020 California Bar Exam Results

California State BarThe California State Bar has released school-by-school data on the October 2020 California Bar Exam.  Here are the results for first time test takers for the 21 California ABA-accredited 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 (97.7%)

Stanford

1 (2)

2 (96.7%)

UCLA

3 (15)

3 (96.0%)

UC-Berkeley

2 (9)

4 (91.8%)

Loyola-L.A.

9 (62)

5 (91.3%)

USC

4 (19)

6 (88.8%)

San Diego

 10 (83)

7 (87.6%)

UC-Irvine

5 (27)

8 (86.7%)

UC-Davis

6 (38)

9 (86.1%)

UC-Hastings

8 (59)

10 (85.9%)

McGeorge

Rank Not Published

11 (84.6%)

Southwestern

Rank Not Published

      84.1%

Statewide Ave. (CA ABA-accredited)

12 (80.7%)

San Francisco

Rank Not Published

13 (80.6%)

Chapman

12 (111)

14 (79.6%)

Pepperdine

7 (47)

15 (75.6%)

Santa Clara

11 (107)

16 (72.9%)

La Verne

Rank Not Published

17 (71.8%)

Cal-Western

Rank Not Published

18 (55.9%)

Western State

Rank Not Published

19 (46.7%)

Thomas Jefferson

Rank Not Published

20 (44.4%)

Golden Gate

Rank Not Published

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2021/01/october-2020-california-bar-exam-results.html

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