Nearly 83 percent of UNC School of Law graduates who took the North Carolina bar exam for the first time in July 2015 passed, according to the official exam results released by the state’s Board of Law Examiners. UNC graduates’ actual bar passage rate was 82.8 percent.
Since 2013, the average bar passage rate among all North Carolina schools has been 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 75 percent, and this year the passage rate was 69 percent.
"We are delighted that Carolina Law graduates continue to make very strong showings on the North Carolina bar exam," said Dean Martin H. Brinkley ’92. "Carolina Law attracts some of the nation’s most talented law students, and we work hard to offer them an outstanding program of legal studies. We’re pleased that the quality of our students and the excellent education they receive in Chapel Hill are confirmed by high rates of bar examination success.”
UNC School of Law's Bar Success Program, which is part of the law school’s Academic Excellence Program, provides students with one-on-one bar instruction and counseling, group workshops and a website containing bar support information.
-September 25, 2015