TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Mar 19, 2026

New data released from the American Bar Association (ABA) shows that Belmont College of Law ranks 10th in the nation for schools with the most successful bar exam passage rate. Belmont students saw a pass rate of 100% for first-time test takers in February 2025 and 96.91% for the July 2025 exam. Stanford, Yale, Duke and Harvard law schools took the top four spots. Reuters reports that the ABA recently released bar exam data detailing national results and figures for the 198 individual U.S. law schools it accredits. The new data shows that 84% of graduates from ABA-accredited law schools who took the bar for the first time passed, which is up one percentage point over the 83% first-time pass rate in 2024.