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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]
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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.
State approved California St. Francis School of Law [21] (distance-learning) Private California 2011 State approved California (Santa Clara) Santa Clara University School of Law: Private Full ABA 1912 1937 Suburban California (Santa Barbara) Southern California Institute of Law: Private Unaccredited 1986 Unaccredited
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]
Additionally, the Open and Distance Learning Quality Council (ODLQC) was established by the government in 1969 as the Council for the Accreditation of Correspondence Colleges and took its current name in 1995. It is now an independent body that accredits home study, distance learning and online learning providers. [38]
Of the 14 SFLS alumni who took the California Bar Exam for the first time in July 2022, one passed, for a 7% passage rate, vs. a 36% average for California-accredited law schools and 67% average overall. [1] SFLS had a five-year cumulative bar pass rate of 36% from 2017 to 2021, below the 40% threshold established by the State Bar of California.