UNC School of Law graduates achieved the highest bar exam passage rate in the state, at 86.79 percent, according to the official July exam results released by the Board of Law Examiners of the State of North Carolina on Sunday, Aug. 31. The percentage of UNC School of Law students who took the exam for the first time and passed was up from 81.29 percent last year.
Since 2013, the average bar passage rate among all North Carolina schools was lower than the historical average. In the July administrations from 2009-11, the passage rate for all North Carolina schools was between 83 percent and 86 percent. Last year, the passage rate was 71.5 percent, and this year the passage rate was 75 percent.
"We are delighted with the strong showing of our graduates," says John Charles "Jack" Boger '74, dean and Wade Edwards Distinguished Professor of Law. "Carolina Law offers its students an outstanding program of legal studies, and we have placed a priority on offering special, curricular and extracurricular preparation for the bar to interested students during their third year of law school."
UNC School of Law's SOAR Bar Success Program, run out of the Writing and Learning Resources Center, provides students with one-on-one bar instruction and counseling, group workshops and a website containing bar support information.
-September 3, 2014