Guess Which Law School Dominated The Florida Bar Exam? It's Not Who You'd Expect...

Unexpected bar passage champ has a year to hold it over its high-profile competitors.

onSeptember 22, 2015 at 3:21 PMSeptember 24, 2015 at 9:32 AM

While everyone else sits around and whines about terrible bar passage rates, one law school decided to bring its numbers up a whole 11 percent and show up its higher-profile competitors in the process.

Daily Business Review put up this image:

Yep, that’s Florida International with an 89 percent passage rate, edging out the University of Florida and Florida State in bar passage. As DBR notes, this is up from 78 percent last year. Looks like the bump can be credited to FIU’s efforts to get students ready for the exam:

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In addition to the hard work of his students, [Dean Alex] Acosta attributed FIU’s success this year to a new academic excellence program he created, headed by professor Raul Ruiz. Ruiz worked with each student, customizing a course of study to best prepare them for the exam and identifying their specific weaknesses, and made himself available throughout the summer to work with them.

Sure beats the traditional law school approach of handing students a J.D. after a year of “Law and Metal Gear Solid” and wishing them luck.

Speaking of useless things, Ave Maria was of course dead last, with fewer than half its graduates passing the exam. Florida Coastal slipped to 7th in this year’s results. After making an unnecessarily big deal over finishing 5th (out of 11 Florida schools) last year, I eagerly await Florida Coastal’s “Finishing in the top 10 in bar passage rate” press release.

FIU Leads State in Bar Passage Rate [Daily Business Review]

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