Cooley Law School bar passage rate at 80-plus percent for 10th consecutive time
Thomas M. Cooley Law School came in second by a very small margin to the University of Michigan Law School in the percentage of first-time takers who passed the Michigan Bar Examination in Feb. 2011.
The recently released results are:
University of Michigan - 17 people took the bar exam and 15 passed, for a rate of 88.2%;
Cooley - 169 of 194 people taking the bar exam passed, or 87.1%;
Michigan State - 16 our of 19 taking the bar exam passed, for an 84.2% rate;
Detroit-Mercy earned a passage rate of 80.6% when 25 of the 31 who took the exam passed;
Wayne State - 18 of 23 passed, for a rate of 78.3%
In all, 348 individuals took the Feb. bar exam (including those who took it from outside of Michigan) and 300 passed, a total rate of 86.2%
For Cooley, this marks 10 consecutive Michigan bar examinations with a score of 80 percent first-time passage rate or more, dating back to July 2006.
President and Dean Don LeDuc said, “You don’t hear sports fans yell, ‘We’re number two,’ so we’d like to think of the accomplishment as the silver medal. Cooley is unfairly criticized by some because we have an access mission and try to be inclusive with admissions. The results over the last five years show that a law school can combine access with academic rigor and produce great law school graduates who compete favorably with graduates of schools with more exclusionary admissions policies.”
Associate Dean Charles Cercone complimented the school’s faculty and staff for their efforts in preparing the students for the rigors of the Michigan Bar Examination. He noted that Cooley has a faculty that is highly regarded by the students and a staff that provides great academic support and bar preparation programs. “On behalf of our faculty, I offer congratulations to these graduates for their outstanding achievement,” said Cercone.
Thomas M. Cooley Law School is the largest law school in the nation.
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