The California State Bar has released school-by-school data on the July 2025 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) | Law School | U.S. News Rank CA (Overall) |
| 1 (100%) | Stanford | 1 (1) |
| 2 (96.4%) | UCLA | 2 (12) |
| 3 (92.93%) | USC | 4 (26) |
| 3 (92.90%) | UC-Davis | 6 (50) |
| 5 (92.8%) | UC-Berkeley | 3 (13) |
| 6 (90.7%) | Pepperdine | 7 (55) |
| 7 (90.3%) | UC-Irvine | 5 (38) |
| 8 (86.0%) | San Diego | 8 (57) |
| 9 (85.5%) | UC Law SF | 10 (88) |
| 84.4% | Statewide Average (CA ABA-Accredited) | |
| 10 (82.1%) | San Francisco | 15 (166) |
| 11 (81.5%) | Santa Clara | 13 (156) |
| 12 (80.4%) | Loyola-L.A. | 9 (71) |
| 13 (80.0%) | Chapman | 11 (104) |
| 14 (78.1%) | Western State | Rank Not Published |
| 15 (70.8%) | Southwestern | 12 (154) |
| 16 (69.1%) | McGeorge | 14 (163) |
| 17 (68.6%) | Cal-Western | Rank Not Published |
| 18 (42.1%) | Golden Gate | Rank Not Published |
The Recorder, How Law Schools Fared on California’s July 2025 Bar Exam:
Statistics released by the state bar this week also showed a continuing pass rate disparity among racial and ethnic groups. Almost 82% of white applicants taking the test for the first time passed compared to 54.2% of Asian test-takers, 46.4% of Black test-takers and 62.1% of Latino test-takers.
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