The California State Bar has released school-by-school data on the July 2023 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 (94.0%) |
Stanford |
1 (1) |
|
2 (88.4%) |
UCLA |
3 (14) |
|
3 (87.3%) |
UC-Irvine |
5 (35) |
|
4 (85.7%) |
UC-Berkeley |
2 (10) |
|
5 (82.5%) |
UC-Davis |
7 (60) |
|
6 (82.0%) |
Pepperdine |
6 (45) |
|
7 (81.4%) |
Chapman |
11 (109) |
|
8 (80.1%) |
USC |
4 (16) |
|
9 (79.6%) |
Loyola-L.A. |
7 (60) |
|
10 (79.0%) |
San Diego |
10 (78) |
|
76.3% |
Statewide Ave. (CA ABA-accredited) |
|
|
11 (72.9%) |
UC-San Francisco |
7 (60) |
|
12 (70.5%) |
San Francisco |
15 (165) |
|
13 (66.2%) |
Southwestern |
12 (141) |
|
14 (65.5%) |
McGeorge |
12 (141) |
|
15 (63.4%) |
Santa Clara |
14 (158) |
|
16 (60.5%) |
Western State |
Rank Not Published |
|
17 (54.3%) |
Cal-Western |
16 (175) |
|
18 (51.5%) |
Golden Gate |
Rank Not Published |
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