Things are looking up for the FAMU College of Law, yesterday the Florida Board of Bar Examiners released the results for July's test and FAMU COL's bar passage rate increased 8 percentage points to 60 percent on the most recent sitting. The latest improvement represents a nice bump up from the COL's Feburary showing of 52.4 percent.While there is certainly room for improvement, FAMU administrators point to the latest results as a sign that progress is being made.
Just last week FAMU trustees approved a $250,000-a-year contract for the law school's first permanent dean in two years, Northern Illinois University law school dean LeRoy Pernell.
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upward and onward!
ReplyDeleteI would like to see absolute numbers. how many students at FSU, UF and other schools failed? The overall failure rate is so high that the majority of failure has to rest with the larger, more established school
ReplyDeleteIt would also be interesting to get an idea of what the overall African American passage rate for students from all Florida schools was and compare it against predominately black FAMU Law.
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ReplyDeleteFlorida State University leads state law school schools in pass rate (first-time takers) for July 2007 general bar exam
Below are the first-time-taker results for the July 2007 general Florida bar examination and the August 2007 Multistate Professional Responsibility (MPRE) examination.
GENERAL FLORIDA BAR EXAMINATION
Florida State University, 89.0%
Stetson University, 87.6%
University of Florida, 86.8%
Florida International University, 85.9%
University of Miami, 85.8%
Florida Coastal School of Law, 84.4%
Nova Southeastern University, 81.9%
OVERALL, 80.4%
Barry University, 79.1%
Non-Florida schools, 75.4%
St. Thomas University, 72.2%
Florida A&M University, 60.0%
MULTISTATE PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY EXAMINATION
Florida International University, 95.5%
University of Florida, 92.4%
Nova Southeastern University, 89.0%
Stetson University, 87.7%
Florida State University, 85.4%
OVERALL, 85.2%
Non-Florida schools, 84.8%
Florida Coastal School of Law, 82.9%
St. Thomas University, 82.2%
Florida A&M University, 79.2%
Barry University, 76.9%
University of Miami, 74.5%
NOTE: Individual applicants should click here to check the Florida Supreme Court's website for official results.
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