The California State Bar has released school-by-school data on the July 2021 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 (95.5%) |
UC-Berkeley |
2 (9) |
|
2 (94.5%) |
Stanford |
1 (2) |
|
3 (94.4%) |
USC |
4 (19) |
|
4 (93.3%) |
UCLA |
3 (14) |
|
5 (89.1%) |
UC-Irvine |
5 (35) |
|
6 (86.4%) |
Loyola-L.A. |
9 (72) |
|
7 (85.4%) |
Pepperdine |
7 (46) |
|
8 (82.9%) |
UC-Hastings |
8 (50) |
|
9 (81.6%) |
UC-Davis |
5 (35) |
|
10 (80.9%) |
San Diego |
10 (86) |
|
80.5% |
Statewide Ave. (CA ABA-accredited) |
|
|
11 (79.0%) |
Chapman |
12 (134) |
|
12 (77.5%) |
Southwestern |
Rank Not Published |
|
13 (71.2%) |
McGeorge |
13 (141) |
|
14 (67.2%) |
Santa Clara |
11 (126) |
|
15 (65.6%) |
San Francisco |
Rank Not Published |
|
16 (65.1%) |
Cal-Western |
Rank Not Published |
|
17 (49.2%) |
Western State |
Rank Not Published |
|
18 (37.9%) |
Golden Gate |
Rank Not Published |
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