Bar Passage Rates (1-25)
| Rank | School | Class of 2013 Bar Passage Rate | Class of 2012 Bar Passage Rate | Differ-ence | 2013 Bar Passage Ranking | 2013 Overall Ranking vs. Bar Passage Ranking | Class of 2013 Employed 9 Months After Graduation |
| 1 | Yale University | 97.9% | 94.4% | 3.5% | 5 | -4 | 88.7% |
| 2 | Harvard University | 97.0% | 97.0% | 0.0% | 9 | -7 | 95.0% |
| 2 | Stanford University | 90.3% | 93.6% | -3.3% | 41 | -39 | 92.8% |
| 4 | University of Chicago | 98.6% | 94.6% | 4.0% | 4 | 0 | 96.3% |
| 4 | Columbia University | 96.3% | 95.3% | 1.0% | 15 | -11 | 97.0% |
| 6 | New York University | 96.2% | 94.8% | 1.4% | 16 | -10 | 95.5% |
| 7 | University of Pennsylvania | 96.5% | 93.2% | 3.3% | 13 | -6 | 96.5% |
| 8 | Duke University | 98.7% | 95.6% | 3.1% | 3 | 5 | 87.6% |
| 8 | University of California-Berkeley | 85.7% | 87.2% | -1.5% | 66 | -58 | 90.4% |
| 8 | University of Virginia | 93.6% | 96.1% | -2.5% | 31 | -23 | 97.0% |
| 11 | University of Michigan | 94.3% | 93.8% | 0.5% | 27 | -16 | 84.5% |
| 12 | Northwestern University | 95.4% | 96.1% | -0.7% | 18 | -6 | 90.8% |
| 13 | Cornell University | 94.4% | 91.6% | 2.8% | 24 | -11 | 89.6% |
| 14 | Georgetown University | 92.3% | 90.0% | 2.3% | 37 | -23 | 89.8% |
| 15 | University of Texas-Austin | 94.8% | 92.3% | 2.5% | 19 | -4 | 86.2% |
| 16 | UCLA | 88.2% | 88.1% | 0.1% | 53 | -37 | 82.2% |
| 17 | Vanderbilt University | 100.0% | 95.7% | 4.3% | 1 | 16 | 90.8% |
| 18 | Washington University (MO) | 94.6% | 94.2% | 0.4% | 23 | -5 | 75.7% |
| 19 | Emory University | 96.8% | 96.6% | 0.2% | 11 | 8 | 93.5% |
| 20 | USC | 85.8% | 87.2% | -1.4% | 65 | -45 | 72.2% |
| 20 | University of Minnesota | 96.5% | 99.3% | -2.8% | 13 | 7 | 78.5% |
| 22 | George Washington University | 94.3% | 90.3% | 4.0% | 27 | -5 | 89.2% |
| 22 | University of Notre Dame | 97.2% | 93.5% | 3.7% | 8 | 14 | 80.4% |
| 22 | University of Iowa | 97.5% | 95.6% | 1.9% | 7 | 15 | 82.6% |
| 22 | University of Alabama | 97.8% | 96.5% | 1.3% | 6 | 16 | 86.7% |
Source: U.S. News & World Report
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