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This exceeds the 40% minimum rate for California accredited law schools, but is below the 75% require for ABA approved law schools. [6] Due to the small number of St. Francis graduates taking the bar exam, statistics on St. Francis graduates' performance on individual exams are not published by the California state bar. [7]
Twelve correspondence and online law schools, although not accredited, are registered by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. This means that the graduates of these distance learning law schools can sit for the California Bar Examination and, under varying circumstances, the bar exams in many other states.
Statistics for the California Bar Examation and First-Year Law Students' Examination ("Baby Bar"), including those for correspondence law schools and distance learning law schools, are provided by the California State Bar. [39] The data show much lower bar passage rates for California-Accredited law schools than for ABA approved law schools.
The school is not accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) due to being an online-only institution and the failure to meet the ABA 75% bar passage within two years of earning a diploma. [9] As a result, students are generally not permitted to take the bar exam outside of California [ 8 ] immediately after graduation.
American Heritage is registered with the State Bar of California Committee of Bar Examiners (CBE) as a distance-learning law school. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Accordingly, after their first year of law studies, law students from American Heritage are required to pass the California First-Year Law Students Examination ("baby bar") [ 8 ] in order to proceed to ...
The school is approved by the State Bar of California and not accredited by the American Bar Association, which does not accredit fully online law schools, providing some limitations in taking the bar exam in most states other than California, Indiana, Connecticut, North Carolina, or Wisconsin. [3]
Rankings: For its 2024 ranking, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school 45th of 196 ABA accredited U.S. law schools. [2] Employment Outcomes: According to Class of 2019 data from the ABA, 75.3% of graduates obtained full-time, long term positions requiring bar admission (i.e., jobs as lawyers), 9 months after graduation. [14]
Abraham Lincoln University is accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC). [12] Its School of Law is registered with the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California in the unaccredited distance learning school category, but is not accredited by the American Bar Association. As such, its graduates only ...