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It also includes law schools that are no longer open. Pages in category "ABA-accredited law schools in California" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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.
It was approved by the American Bar Association in 1937. [7] It joined the Association of American Law Schools in 1940. [8] Prior to the requirement that all California law graduates must take the state bar exam, Santa Clara Law was one of the five schools whose graduates were exempt from the examination, along with Boalt Hall, Hastings ...
The University of San Diego School of Law (USD Law) is the law school of the University of San Diego, a private Roman Catholic research university in San Diego, California. Founded in 1954, the law school has held ABA approval since 1961. [4] It joined the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 1966. [5]
The PCU School of Law was accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California from 2010 until its termination on August 20, 2020 due to non-compliance with the minimum California Bar pass rate. [4] [5]
In the 2024 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings, McGeorge School of Law was ranked tied for 159th out of 196 schools. [1] Of the McGeorge alumni who took the California bar for the first time in July, 2022, 57% passed. It ranked fifteenth among the eighteen ABA-accredited California law schools. [3]
In order to evaluate the "qualitative soundness of a law school's program of legal education," the State Bar of California requires all California-Accredited Law schools to provide cumulative bar passage rates for the previous five years. For 2018-2022, SJCL's cumulative five-year bar pass rate was 76.3%. [8]
Western State College of Law was founded in 1966 in Orange County, California. [5] [6] In 1987, the school applied for accreditation with the American Bar Association (ABA).). Although the school was unsuccessful in this attempt, it was at the time accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges [8] [9] and by the California State Committee of Bar Examiners (CBE).