{"id":110509,"date":"2025-03-14T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/14\/the-law-schools-dominating-the-bar-exam-whos-leading-the-pack-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:03:06","slug":"the-law-schools-dominating-the-bar-exam-whos-leading-the-pack-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/14\/the-law-schools-dominating-the-bar-exam-whos-leading-the-pack-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law Schools Dominating The Bar Exam \u2014 Who\u2019s Leading The Pack? (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Woohoo! We passed the bar exam!\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>

The 2024 administration of the bar exam may be in the rearview mirror, but now we\u2019ve got some interesting data on which law schools came out on top when it came to their graduates\u2019 pass rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As noted by Reuters, the American Bar Association recently released information concerning bar exam outcomes for the nearly 200 law schools it accredits. The pass rate for first-time test takers inched up to about 83% in 2024, an increase over 2023\u2019s 79% first-time pass rate. This is the highest first-time pass rate since 2020, when the pandemic wreaked havoc upon test takers nationwide. But which law schools truly did the best on the bar exam? Here are some additional details:<\/p>\n\n\n

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The eight schools with the highest 2024 first-time pass rates are all in the so-called T-14 \u2014 the 14 highest ranked schools according to U.S. News & World Report. But three Texas law schools outside the T-14 landed among the 15 schools with the highest 2024 pass rates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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According to\u00a0Reuters<\/a>, these are the 15 law schools that were a cut above the rest when it came to their 2024 first-time bar exam pass rates:<\/p>\n

  1. Harvard: 97.86%<\/li>\n
  2. Duke: 97.48%<\/li>\n
  3. Chicago: 97.42%<\/li>\n
  4. NYU: 96.72%<\/li>\n
  5. Penn: 96.70%<\/li>\n
  6. Stanford: 96.50%<\/li>\n
  7. Yale: 96.50%<\/li>\n
  8. Cornell: 96.41%<\/li>\n
  9. Texas A&M: 95.98%<\/li>\n
  10. Columbia: 95.85%<\/li>\n
  11. Texas: 95.62%<\/li>\n
  12. Michigan: 95.57%<\/li>\n
  13. Belmont: 95.00%<\/li>\n
  14. UVA: 94.98%<\/li>\n
  15. Baylor: 94.92%<\/li>\n<\/ol>

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    For reference, the T14 law schools that didn\u2019t make the list here are UCLA (94.23%), Georgetown (92.95%), Northwestern (91.80%), and UC Berkeley (91.16%).<\/p>\n

    Congratulations to all of the law schools that made the list!<\/p>\n

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    These US law schools crushed the bar exam in 2024<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n

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    Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    The post The Law Schools Dominating The Bar Exam \u2014 Who\u2019s Leading The Pack? (2024)<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>

    \"\"
    \u2018Woohoo! We passed the bar exam!\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>

    The 2024 administration of the bar exam may be in the rearview mirror, but now we\u2019ve got some interesting data on which law schools came out on top when it came to their graduates\u2019 pass rates.<\/p>

    As noted by Reuters, the American Bar Association recently released information concerning bar exam outcomes for the nearly 200 law schools it accredits. The pass rate for first-time test takers inched up to about 83% in 2024, an increase over 2023\u2019s 79% first-time pass rate. This is the highest first-time pass rate since 2020, when the pandemic wreaked havoc upon test takers nationwide. But which law schools truly did the best on the bar exam? Here are some additional details:<\/p>

    \n

    The eight schools with the highest 2024 first-time pass rates are all in the so-called T-14 \u2014 the 14 highest ranked schools according to U.S. News & World Report. But three Texas law schools outside the T-14 landed among the 15 schools with the highest 2024 pass rates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>

    According to\u00a0Reuters<\/a>, these are the 15 law schools that were a cut above the rest when it came to their 2024 first-time bar exam pass rates:<\/p>

    1. Harvard: 97.86%<\/li>\n
    2. Duke: 97.48%<\/li>\n
    3. Chicago: 97.42%<\/li>\n
    4. NYU: 96.72%<\/li>\n
    5. Penn: 96.70%<\/li>\n
    6. Stanford: 96.50%<\/li>\n
    7. Yale: 96.50%<\/li>\n
    8. Cornell: 96.41%<\/li>\n
    9. Texas A&M: 95.98%<\/li>\n
    10. Columbia: 95.85%<\/li>\n
    11. Texas: 95.62%<\/li>\n
    12. Michigan: 95.57%<\/li>\n
    13. Belmont: 95.00%<\/li>\n
    14. UVA: 94.98%<\/li>\n
    15. Baylor: 94.92%<\/li>\n<\/ol>

      For reference, the T14 law schools that didn\u2019t make the list here are UCLA (94.23%), Georgetown (92.95%), Northwestern (91.80%), and UC Berkeley (91.16%).<\/p>

      Congratulations to all of the law schools that made the list!<\/p>

      These US law schools crushed the bar exam in 2024<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>

      \"Staci
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      Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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