Sunday, December 30, 2018

The California State Bar has released school-by-school data on the July 2018 California Bar Exam. The July 2018 pass rate for first-time test-takers from California ABA-approved law schools was 64%, down six percentage points from last year. The pass rate fell at 20 of the 21 California ABA-approved law schools; only Pepperdine increased its pass rate (to 66%). Here are the July 2018 results for the 21 California ABA-approved law schools, along with each school's change from the July 2017 results:

Bar Pass Rank (Rate) School Rate Change From 2017 1 (91%) Stanford -5% 2 (86%) UC-Berkeley -3%

3 (83%) UCLA

-5% 4 (80%) USC -8% 5 (75%) UC-Davis -4% 6 (72%) Loyola-L.A. -1% 7 (71%) San Diego -7% 8 (69%) UC-Irvine

-14% 9 (66%) Pepperdine +1%

64% Statewide Ave. (CA ABA-Approved) 10 (60.3%) Chapman

-4%

11 (59.6%) UC-Hastings

-1%

12 (58%) Santa Clara -21%

13 (53%) Southwestern

-4%

14 (52%) Cal-Western

-13%

15 (51%) Western State

-5%

16 (50%) McGeorge

-12%

17 (34.0%) La Verne

-7%

18 (33.9%) Golden Gate -17%

19 (33%) San Francisco -21%

20 (26%) Whittier -12%

21 (25%) Thomas Jefferson -5%



Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/12/july-2018-california-bar-exam-results.html