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Law School Bar Exam Pass Rates: Compare Your School’s Performance

What is the average first time bar examination pass rate for your law school in the 2023 calendar year? How does it compare to other schools? How does it compare to the average pass rate? See below for the results. A positive number in the Difference column indicates a law school outperformed against the weighted average, while a negative number indicates the school underperformed against the weighted average.

How Does Your Law School’s Bar Exam Pass Rate Compare in 2023?

“School Pass Rate” is how the law school’s graduates performed across all jurisdictions where they took the bar examination for the first time.

“Avg. Pass Rate” is the average pass rate for graduates from ABA-accredited law schools for each jurisdiction in which the law school’s graduates sat for the bar exam.  This number is weighted so that bar pass rates from jurisdictions where more of the law school’s graduates sat for the bar have a greater impact in the ABA weighted average bar pass rate than bar pass rates from jurisdictions where fewer of the law school’s graduates sat for the bar exam.

“Difference” is the difference between the law school pass rate and the weighted average bar pass rate compares the performance of the law School’s graduates on the bar exam in all jurisdictions where they took the bar exam for the first time with the performance of graduates from all ABA accredited law schools on the bar exam in those jurisdictions.

The average School Pass Rate, regardless of jurisdiction was 79.18%.

Source – The American Bar Association