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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.
Students to whom the school awards the JD degree are eligible to take the California Bar Examination and become licensed in the State of California. [8] 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]
The Distance Education Accrediting Commission [1] is an accrediting agency recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). [2] [3] The agency accredits institutions from the primary level through universities. [4]
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]
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]
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.
Golden Gate ranked seventeenth and next-to-last (missing last place by one percentage point) among ABA-approved California law schools. [6] [32] In 2019, Golden Gate received notice that it was not in compliance with ABA Standard 316, which requires accredited law schools to have a two-year bar pass rate of at least 75% or lose accreditation.