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Friday, March 3, 2023

Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rate (2020)

Following up on my previous posts:

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).

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