Bar Pass Rate for Law Grads Shows Little Movement; Which Law Schools Did Best?
The bar pass rate for 2016 law grads who sat for the exam within two years of graduating is 88.57%, according to ABA data released Friday.
The ABA Journal reports that the data is for graduates of ABA-accredited law schools, according to a press release. The percentage is substantially the same as for 2015 law grads, who had an 88.49% bar pass rate within two years.
Debra Cassens Weiss writes:
Four law schools had a 100% bar pass rate. They are the University of Chicago Law School, Yale Law School, the Concordia University School of Law and the University of Wisconsin Law School.
In Wisconsin, graduates of ABA-accredited law schools in the state are allowed to skip the bar exam. Concordia had only 25 graduates, and all 24 grads who took the exam passed.
The Journal article includes links to spreadsheets showing how students from law schools fared on the exams.