College of Law’s 2025 Ultimate Bar Passage Rate Reaches 94%
The College of Law has achieved 94% Ultimate Bar Passage rate for 2025 (representing the Class of 2023), further demonstrating the impact of the college’s mission of supporting its students from admission through the bar exam. Graduates took the bar exam in 25 states, reflecting the national reach of the college’s hybrid online J.D. program, JDinteractive.
The Class of 2024 has also already achieved 94% Ultimate Bar Passage rate with two bar administrations remaining.
“I want to congratulate our graduates who have passed the bar and are practicing all over the world,” says Dean Terence Lau L’98. “This is a direct result of the college’s and Dean Kelly Curtis’ ongoing commitment to supporting our students throughout their legal education right up to the crucial bar exam.”
The college continues to strategically invest in academic and bar support efforts, including increasing the number of staff in the Office of Academic and Bar Success (OABS). The OABS is charged with delivering highly targeted bar preparation programming and support. Bar preparation initiatives include:
- Intensive “boot camp” sessions that focus on bar exam topics and study strategies
- Bar preparation checklists
- Bar-related courses
- Quarterly email newsletters
- Individual support for students most at risk on the bar exam
- A partnership with Kaplan Bar Review that provides students with materials from the 1L year through the bar exam
“The 2025 results continue our upwards trajectory in the Ultimate Bar Passage rate, and I am proud of the accomplishments of our graduates,” says , associate dean of students and teaching professor. “The Office of Academic and Bar Support and our faculty continue to refine and adapt our bar preparation programming to meet the changing needs of the profession, most notably the NextGen Bar Exam.”
Furthermore, eight of the college’s past nine graduating classes have exceeded 90% Ultimate Bar Passage rate.
Curtis’s efforts in academic and bar support were recently recognized by the American Association of Law Schools Section on Academic Support, as she was named the recipient of its . The award recognizes legal educators who are “inspiring students and peers in the academic support profession today and catapulting us forward to a stronger tomorrow.”
