The Best Law Schools for Teaching Excellence

How Georgia State can best Yale Law School? An analysis of the best schools based on bar passage shows some surprising differences

2015 Overall Ranking

School Bar Passage Rate Bar Passage Ranking Difference Between Overall Ranking and Bar Passage Ranking

Enroll-ment

Employed 9 Months After Graduation (Placement for Class of 2013) Place-ment Ranking

31

University of Wisconsin

100.0%

1

-30

623

72.5%

53

93

Marquette University

100.0%

1

-92

581

67.9%

71

40

University of Illinois

97.7%

4

-36

543

68.1%

67

64

Georgia State University

96.8%

6

-58

469

74.9%

46

23

University of Alabama

96.5%

8

-15

465

86.0%

13

64

University of Missouri-Columbia

96.2%

9

-55

384

78.9%

28

27

University of Iowa

95.6%

13

-14

411

77.3%

34

72

Illinois Institute of Technology (Kent)

94.8%

16

-56

763

65.2%

74

24

University of Washington

94.4%

19

-5

541

79.0%

27

29

University of Georgia

94.0%

22

-7

621

76.0%

41

51

Penn State University

94.0%

22

-29

475

64.9%

77

27

Boston University

93.6%

25

-2

676

68.1%

67

26

University of Notre Dame

93.5%

27

1

520

77.6%

33

31

Ohio State University

93.5%

27

-4

574

72.1%

57

51

Baylor University

93.5%

27

-24

371

73.2%

49

93

St. Louis University

92.6%

31

-62

559

73.2%

49

54

University of Nebraska

92.3%

32

-22

378

82.0%

21

93

University of New Hampshire

91.8%

34

-59

271

68.1%

67

36

Boston College

91.7%

35

-1

728

71.2%

59

40

University of Arizona

91.5%

37

-3

404

75.2%

42

72

Lewis & Clark University

91.5%

37

-35

409

64.1%

82

68

Loyola (Chicago)

91.0%

39

-29

681

63.5%

84

72

University of New Mexico

90.9%

40

-32

344

69.7%

62

93

Villanova University

90.9%

40

-53

594

59.4%

92

68

University of Kansas

90.5%

42

-26

370

74.7%

47

58

University of Kentucky

90.0%

44

-14

402

83.7%

20

49

University of Florida

89.5%

46

-3

944

63.1%

86

36

Fordham University

89.4%

47

11

1109

68.9%

63

31

Wake Forest University

89.3%

48

17

482

76.9%

37

93

Stetson

89.3%

48

-45

701

68.9%

63

79

University of Cincinnati

89.0%

50

-29

345

64.3%

80

 
Source: Tipping the Scales analysis based on U.S. News & World Report 2015 law school ranking

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