The July 2010 California bar passage rates by school are out. For first-time takers, the overall pass rates were 68.3% for all takers and 75.2% for graduates of the twenty California ABA-approved law schools.
The results by gender:
- Female: 68.3% overall, 75.6% CA ABA-approved
- Male: 68.3% overall, 74.7% CA ABA-approved
The results by race:
- White: 74.2% overall, 80.2% CA ABA-approved
- Asian: 63.7% overall, 71.9% CA ABA-approved
- Other Minority: 60.2% overall, 68.9% CA ABA-approved
- Hispanic: 56.2% overall, 65.5% CA ABA-approved
- Black: 44.6% overall, 53.6% CA ABA-approved
Here are the results by school for first-time test-takers, along with each school’s U.S. News ranking (California and overall):
Bar Rank
% Pass
Law School
US News Rank CA (Overall)
1
97.8%
Stanford
1 (3)
2
91.5%
UC-Berkeley
2 (7)
3
90.2%
USC
4 (18)
4
88.3%
Pepperdine
7 (52)
5
83.7%
Loyola-L.A.
8 (56)
6
83.5%
UCLA
3 (15)
7
83.3%
Western State
15 (Tier 4)
8
81.3%
UC-Davis
5 (28)
9
80.8%
UC-Hastings
6 (42)
10
76.0%
San Francisco
12 (98)
75.2%
Statewide Ave. (CA ABA Approved)
11
71.1%
McGeorge
12 (98)
12
70.5%
Santa Clara
10 (93)
13
70.1%
Cal-Western
15 (Tier 4)
14
69.6%
Chapman
10 (93)
15
65.3%
San Diego
8 (56)56
16
59.0%
Southwestern
14 (Tier 3)
17
58.1%
T. Jefferson
15 (Tier 4)
18
57.2%
Golden Gate
15 (Tier 4)
19
53.4%
Whittier
15 (Tier 4)
20
46.7%
LaVerne
NR
For prior years’ results, see:
