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 of Class of 2013)

Place-ment Ranking

43

University of Colorado-Boulder

88.7%

53

10

514

64.0%

83

31

University of North Carolina

88.5%

55

24

720

72.3%

55

24

College of William & Mary

87.9%

57

33

623

85.3%

17

29

University of Indiana

87.8%

58

29

638

64.7%

78

46

George Mason University

87.1%

63

17

363

72.7%

51

31

Arizona State University

86.4%

66

35

567

72.6%

52

36

Brigham Young University

86.1%

67

31

412

78.2%

30

54

Pepperdine University

85.6%

69

15

602

58.2%

95

81

University of Pittsburgh

83.3%

78

-3

590

64.4%

79

49

University of Utah

83.0%

80

31

354

70.9%

60

46

University of Maryland

81.3%

85

39

643

68.7%

66

36

University of California-Davis

78.3%

91

55

499

67.8%

72

46

Tulane University

77.8%

93

47

697

72.1%

57

54

U.C.-Hastings

76.4%

96

42

1041

51.7%

99

79

University of San Diego

76.3%

97

18

696

51.7%

99

43

Washington & Lee University

71.7%

100

57

419

56.9%

97

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

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