ABA announces Campbell Law’s ultimate bar passage rate at 96.2 percent

RALEIGH - Campbell Law School's ultimate bar passage rate is 96.2 percent, according to the most recent data on bar passage released by the American Bar Association (ABA)'s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

The ABA released the latest comprehensive set of data on bar passage outcomes for ABA-approved law schools earlier this month.

The new data shows that in the aggregate, 96.2 percent of 2023 law graduates who sat for a bar exam passed it within two years of graduation. The current statistics already show a 96.1 percent pass rate for the 2024 graduates, who have another year to take the exam before the ultimate pass rate is computed. The data is for ABA-accredited law schools.

Standard 316 of the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedures for Approval of Law Schools requires at least 75 percent of a law school's graduates in a calendar year who sit for the bar examination to pass within two years.

In addition to the numbers on bar passage, the data incorporates those who become licensed to practice law by alternative pathways. These graduates are admitted to the practice of law and are considered bar passers without sitting for a bar examination.

The information released includes charts that include aggregate data in different ethnicity categories for information collected in 2023 and 2024 broken down by gender.

Spreadsheets are available on the section's webpage under Legal Education Statistics, which report these outcomes under ABA Required Disclosures on a school-by-school basis and in more detail.

ABOUT CAMPBELL LAW SCHOOL

Since its founding in 1986, Campbell Law has developed lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion, and professional competence, and who view the law as a calling to serve others. Among its accolades, the school has been recognized by the American Bar Association (ABA) as having the nation's top Professionalism Program and by the American Academy of Trial Lawyers for having the nation's best Trial Advocacy Program. Campbell Law boasts more than 5,000 alumni, who make their home in nearly all 50 states and beyond. In 2026, Campbell Law is celebrating 50 years of graduating legal leaders and 17 years of being located in a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of North Carolina's Capital City.

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