TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 12, 2023

The American Bar Association has released new bar passage data for 196 ABA-approved law schools. The data includes percentage pass rates based on race, ethnicity and gender from information collected from the 2022 exam. The ABA Journal summarizes some of the key findings, including that Black candidates continue to have the lowest pass rate, and that rate fell from 61% in 2021 to 57% in 2022. Rates for other ethnic groups include Native Americans with a 60% pass rate, Hawaiians and Hispanics with a 69% pass rate, Asians with a 75% pass rate, and whites with a 83% pass rate. The data also shows that female candidates saw lower pass rates than men: 77% compared to 80%. View the data.