Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rate (2020)

Following up on my previous posts:

• 2022 Bar Pass Rate Fell 2 Percentage Points Due To Fewer 1L Academic Dismissals After Spring 2020 Covid Semester
• Law School Rankings By 2022 First-Time Bar Passage Rate

Here is the ranking of schools in the  Ultimate Graduation Year 2020 Bar Pass Data from the ABA's spreadsheet released last Friday:

Rank	School	Pass Rate	Pass Rate (Incl.Diploma Privilege)
1	BYU	100.00%	100.00%
1	Chicago	100.00%	100.00%
1	Stanford	100.00%	100.00%
1	Utah	100.00%	100.00%
5	Duke	99.52%	99.53%
6	Minnesota	99.48%	99.48%
7	Louisiana State	99.37%	99.64%
8	UC-Berkeley	99.36%	99.38%
9	Virginia	99.35%	99.36%
10	Baylor	99.23%	99.24%
11	Alabama	99.21%	99.21%
12	Michigan	99.20%	99.20%
13	Texas A&M	99.19%	99.19%
14	NYU	99.14%	99.15%
15	Texas	99.03%	99.04%
16	Harvard	99.01%	99.01%
17	UCLA	99.00%	99.01%
18	Yale	98.96%	98.96%
19	Georgia	98.85%	98.86%
20	Boston Univ.	98.64%	98.65%
21	Regent	98.53%	98.53%
22	USC	98.34%	98.35%
23	Penn	98.34%	98.37%
24	Washington Univ.	98.19%	98.21%
25	William & Mary	97.71%	97.73%
26	Florida Int'l	97.67%	97.67%
27	Colorado	97.65%	97.66%
28	Cornell	97.41%	97.42%
29	Missouri-Columbia	97.37%	97.44%
30	Fordham	97.33%	97.33%
31	Samford	97.20%	97.20%
32	Northwestern	97.11%	97.11%
33	Wake Forest	97.10%	97.10%
34	Boston College	97.07%	97.10%
35	Dayton	97.01%	97.06%
35	New Hampshire	97.01%	97.01%
37	Ohio State	97.00%	97.01%
38	Montana	96.92%	97.06%
39	George Mason	96.88%	96.97%
40	North Carolina	96.86%	96.89%
41	Northeastern	96.83%	96.88%
42	St. Louis	96.79%	96.82%
43	Vanderbilt	96.63%	96.63%
44	Texas Tech	96.61%	96.61%
45	New Mexico	96.46%	96.46%
46	Liberty	96.30%	96.36%
47	Columbia	96.22%	96.22%
48	Loyola-L.A.	96.19%	96.19%
49	George Washington	95.96%	96.06%
50	St. John's	95.95%	95.95%

51	Kansas	95.92%	95.92%
52	Connecticut	95.73%	95.73%
53	Illinois	95.71%	95.74%
53	Indiana (Maurer)	95.71%	95.83%
55	Wayne State	95.62%	95.68%
56	Campbell	95.59%	95.59%
56	Maine	95.59%	95.59%
56	Oklahoma	95.59%	95.68%
59	Louisville	95.58%	95.65%
60	Cardozo	95.54%	95.56%
61	UC-Irvine	95.52%	95.59%
62	Georgetown	95.45%	95.56%
63	Notre Dame	95.38%	95.43%
64	SMU	95.33%	95.33%
65	Southwestern	95.24%	95.24%
66	Florida	95.21%	95.21%
67	Wyoming	95.08%	95.08%
68	Belmont	94.95%	94.95%
69	Richmond	94.70%	94.70%
69	Washington & Lee	94.70%	94.70%
71	Cincinnati	94.68%	94.68%
72	Penn State-Univ. Park	94.64%	94.69%
73	Arkansas-Fayetteville	94.59%	94.59%
74	South Carolina	94.39%	94.39%
75	Case Western	94.34%	94.39%
76	Catholic	94.19%	94.38%
77	Penn State-Dickinson	94.12%	94.12%
78	Pittsburgh	94.03%	94.03%
79	Tennessee	93.97%	93.97%
80	Florida State	93.94%	93.98%
81	Iowa	93.89%	93.89%
82	Nebraska	93.69%	93.75%
83	North Dakota	93.65%	93.65%
84	Temple	93.27%	93.27%
85	Villanova	93.17%	93.17%
86	Maryland	93.14%	93.18%
87	Drexel	93.08%	93.08%
88	Northern Illinois	93.02%	93.02%
88	Oregon	93.02%	97.54%
90	Tulsa	93.00%	93.00%
91	Albany	92.67%	92.67%
92	Creighton	92.55%	92.55%
93	Kentucky	92.45%	92.45%
94	San Diego	92.41%	92.51%
95	Missouri-Kansas City	92.37%	92.37%
96	Arizona State	92.06%	92.06%
97	Pacific	91.87%	95.78%
98	Chapman	91.72%	91.72%
99	Idaho	91.67%	92.31%
99	Willamette	91.67%	98.08%
101	Quinnipiac	91.60%	91.60%
102	UC-San Francisco	91.58%	91.67%
103	Toledo	91.57%	91.57%
104	SUNY-Buffalo	91.55%	91.55%
105	Mercer	91.53%	91.53%
106	Drake	91.49%	91.49%
107	Capital	91.35%	91.35%
108	Indiana (McKinney)	91.34%	91.34%
109	Emory	91.13%	91.13%
110	UC-Davis	90.97%	90.97%
111	Syracuse	90.97%	90.97%
112	Pepperdine	90.77%	90.77%
113	University of Washington	90.70%	97.18%
114	Georgia State	90.66%	90.66%
115	Arkansas-Little Rock	90.65%	90.65%
116	Duquesne	90.55%	90.63%
117	Brooklyn	90.25%	90.31%
118	West Virginia	90.20%	90.20%
119	Memphis	90.12%	90.12%
120	North Carolina Central	89.91%	90.00%
121	Washburn	89.89%	89.89%
122	Faulkner	89.80%	89.80%
122	Rutgers	89.80%	89.80%
124	New York Law School	89.77%	89.77%
125	American	89.57%	89.57%
126	Suffolk	89.40%	89.40%
127	Oklahoma City	89.34%	89.34%
128	UNLV	89.15%	89.23%
129	Gonzaga	89.13%	95.15%
130	Lewis & Clark	89.06%	95.42%
131	Santa Clara	88.89%	88.89%
132	Loyola-Chicago	88.79%	88.79%
133	Chicago-Kent	88.73%	88.73%
134	Mississippi	88.68%	88.89%
135	Denver	88.44%	88.50%
136	Ave Maria	88.41%	88.41%
137	South Texas	88.32%	88.36%
138	Michigan State	88.26%	88.26%
139	Cleveland State	88.17%	88.17%
140	Seton Hall	88.13%	88.13%
141	New England	87.92%	87.92%
142	Widener (PA)	87.88%	87.88%
143	DePaul	87.68%	87.74%
144	Detroit Mercy	87.63%	87.63%
145	San Francisco	87.50%	87.72%
146	Northern Kentucky	87.38%	87.38%
147	Pace	87.06%	87.13%
148	Stetson	87.03%	87.03%
149	St. Mary's	86.89%	86.96%
150	St. Thomas (MN)	86.82%	86.82%
151	South Dakota	86.79%	86.79%
152	Elon	86.78%	86.78%
153	Miami	86.24%	86.24%
154	Houston	86.22%	86.22%
155	Seattle	85.71%	95.32%
156	Hofstra	85.41%	85.41%
157	Mitchell | Hamline	85.38%	85.53%
158	Baltimore	85.03%	85.03%
159	Lincoln Memorial	84.93%	84.93%
160	Akron	84.83%	84.83%
161	Roger Williams	84.78%	84.78%
162	Widener (DE)	84.56%	84.56%
163	CUNY	84.51%	84.51%
164	Southern	84.40%	89.70%
165	Hawaii	84.34%	84.34%
166	Illinois-Chicago	84.03%	84.03%
167	Massachusetts	83.93%	84.21%
168	Cal-Western	83.84%	83.84%
169	University of Arizona	83.33%	83.33%
170	North Texas	83.13%	83.13%
170	Western New England	83.13%	83.33%
172	Nova	82.68%	82.68%
173	Tulane	82.48%	88.24%
174	Mississippi College	82.18%	83.64%
175	Howard	82.00%	82.18%
176	Ohio Northern	81.25%	81.63%
177	St. Thomas (FL)	80.67%	80.79%
178	District of Columbia	80.60%	80.60%
179	Florida A&M	80.00%	80.00%
180	Barry	79.53%	79.53%
181	Touro	79.07%	79.07%
182	Charleston	78.50%	78.50%
183	John Marshall (GA)	78.49%	78.49%
184	Western State	77.01%	77.01%
185	Vermont	76.61%	77.69%
186	Southern Illinois	75.00%	75.00%
186	Texas Southern	75.00%	75.12%
186	Wisconsin	75.00%	99.32%

Eight law schools fell short of the 75% accreditation threshold:

189	Pontifical Catholic (PR)	72.63%	84.15%
190	Appalachian	71.43%	71.43%
190	Puerto Rico	71.43%	71.43%
192	Loyola-New Orleans	64.71%	88.31%
193	Golden Gate	62.71%	62.71%
194	Western Michigan	61.00%	61.00%
195	Inter-American (PR)	58.58%	58.58%
196	Marquette	57.14%	98.22%

Last Friday's ABA press release notes:

Bill Adams, managing director of ABA accreditation and legal education, noted that as with past years, this information was reported to the ABA by law schools and is being made public as a matter of consumer information under the authority of ABA Standard 509. He also pointed out that the latest data “is not a compliance report for ABA Standard 316,” which establishes bar exam outcomes that a law school must achieve under the accreditation standards.

“That is a separate and distinct matter,” he added. “But we have found these public reports provide important consumer information for students considering whether and where to attend law school and for others with an interest in legal education.”

Bar Pass Outcomes for Calendar 2020 within Two Years of Graduation Graduates (Any corrections in the data after February 24th, 2022 can be found at http://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/BarPassageOutcomes.aspx).

• Law School Rankings by Ultimate Bar Passage Rate (2019)