July 2023 California Bar Exam Results

The California State Bar has released school-by-school data on the July 2023 California Bar Exam. Here are the results for first time test takers for the 18 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 (94.0%)	Stanford	1 (1)
2 (88.4%)	UCLA	3 (14)
3 (87.3%)	UC-Irvine	5 (35)
4 (85.7%)	UC-Berkeley	2 (10)
5 (82.5%)	UC-Davis	7 (60)
6 (82.0%)	Pepperdine	6 (45)
7 (81.4%)	Chapman	11 (109)
8 (80.1%)	USC	4 (16)
9 (79.6%)	Loyola-L.A.	7 (60)
10 (79.0%)	San Diego	10 (78)
76.3%	Statewide Ave. (CA ABA-accredited)
11 (72.9%)	UC-San Francisco	7 (60)
12 (70.5%)	San Francisco	15 (165)
13 (66.2%)	Southwestern	12 (141)
14 (65.5%)	McGeorge	12 (141)
15 (63.4%)	Santa Clara	14 (158)
16 (60.5%)	Western State	Rank Not Published
17 (54.3%)	Cal-Western	16 (175)
18 (51.5%)	Golden Gate	Rank Not Published

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• July 2022 Results
• July 2021 Results
• October 2020 Results
• July 2019 Results
• July 2018 Results
• July 2017 Results
• July 2016 Results
• July 2015 Results
• July 2014 Results
• July 2013 Results
• July 2012 Results
• July 2011 Results
• July 2010 Results
• July 2009 Results
• July 2008 Results