California Bar Pass Statistics
December 27, 2004
The complete statistics from the July 2004 California Bar Exam are available online here.
The overall bar pass rate was 48.2% but first-time takers had a 62.8% success rate. Graduates of in-state, ABA-approved law schools had a 69.4% pass rate. Out-of-state, ABA-approved law schools saw a 65.8% pass rate.
Below are the bar pass rate of in-state, ABA-approved law schools whose bar pass rate exceeded 50%.
Stanford (91%)
UCLA (87%)
UC - Berkeley (87%)
UC - Hastings (81%)
USC (80%)
UC - Davis (76%)
Pepperdine (74%)
University of San Diego (70%)
McGeorge (69%)
Chapman (67%)
Loyola Los Angeles (67%)
Santa Clara (67%)
University of San Francisco (65%)
Southwestern (57%)
Schools in the Top 50 (according to USNews), not surprisingly, had excellent pass rates. The winner was Emory, with a 90% pass rate. Harvard took second (89%), but ten times as many Harvard graduates took the bar as did Emory grads (91 Harvard to 10 Emory). Here are how some of the out-of-state schools fared:
Emory (90%)
Harvard (89%)
Columbia (88%)
Pennsylvania (88%)
Virginia (88%)
Yale (88%)
Texas (85%)
Duke (84%)
NYU (83%)
Chicago (82%)
Cornell (82%)
Georgetown (82%)
Michigan (82%)
Boston University (80%)
Brigham Young (77%)