Which Texas Law Schools Are Best for the Money?

The chart below shows how the graduates or students of Texas' nine American Bar Association-accredited law schools performed on the February 2014 Texas bar exam. The results were released April 30 by the Texas Board of Law Examiners.

The Texas BLE administers the exam twice a year, in February and in July. A relatively small number of graduates and students sit for the February exam and so the percentage of students who pass is not necessarily an indication of a trend regarding how well the school is preparing its students for the exam.

Graduates of Texas Tech University School of Law can claim top honors - 91.67 percent of the school's 24 graduates or students who sat for the exam for the first time in February passed. Overall, 570 of 742, or 76.82 percent of Texas law school first-time-test-takers passed the exam.

Texas Law School Pass Rates
School	February 2014 Total Taking Test	February 2014 Total Passing Test	February 2014 Percent Passing	February 2013 Percent Passing	February 2012 Percent Passing
Baylor University School of Law	37	33	89.19	95.56	92.59
St. Mary's University School of Law	42	28	66.67	75.00	66.13
South Texas College of Law	111	93	83.78	85.22	78.31
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law	25	18	72.00	73.08	90.63
Texas A&M University School of Law	48	42	87.50	88.68	68.89
Texas Tech University School of Law	24	22	91.67	95.45	80.95
Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law	24	16	66.67	66.67	44.44
University of Houston Law Center	32	27	84.38	89.66	77.14
University of Texas School of Law	17	10	58.82	86.36	76.47
Overall	360	289	80.28	84.78	76.57
Note: Results are for first-time test-takers who are Texas law school graduates. Source: Texas Board of Law Examiners

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