Which Ohio law schools’ grads perform best on the bar exam?

Case Western Reserve is a selective university parked near downtown Cleveland, but its pulls a huge academic punch. Case Western Reserve was ranked as the No. 37 university in the United States, good enough to make the school No. 1 in Ohio. Top notch academics do not come cheap. Tuition is more than $44,000 a year at Case. But the advantage of going to Case is that it offers small, hands-on classes for students. More than 60 percent of classes have fewer than 20 students. The university is a popular choice for grad students as more than half of its 10,779 students are seeking a graduate or professional degree. The school has produced 16 Nobel Prize laureates in the fields of medicine, physics, psychology and chemistry.

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Case Western Reserve is a selective university parked near downtown Cleveland, but its pulls a huge academic punch. Case Western Reserve was ranked as the No. 37 university in the United States, good enough to make the school No. 1 in Ohio. Top notch academics do not come cheap. Tuition is more than $44,000 a year at Case. But the advantage of going to Case is that it offers small, hands-on classes for students. More than 60 percent of classes have fewer than 20 students. The university is a popular choice for grad students as more than half of its 10,779 students are seeking a graduate or professional degree. The school has produced 16 Nobel Prize laureates in the fields of medicine, physics, psychology and chemistry.

The Ohio Supreme Court recently released the results of its July bar exam in Ohio, detailing its results by law school and city.

The results are broken down by number of graduates who took and passed the exam from each school.

Here’s how Ohio law schools performed:

SchoolAll takersTakers who passed% who passed
Ohio State14112287
Case Western696087
University of Cincinnati584781
Cleveland State1148575
Ohio Northern191474
University of Akron946771
Capital1066460
University of Dayton603558
University of Toledo523058

Which schools produced the most graduates who passed the bar exam in July?

SchoolGraduates passed
Ohio State University122
Cleveland State University85
University of Akron67
Capital University64
Case Western Reserve University60
University of Cincinnati47
University of Dayton35
University of Toledo30
Northern Kentucky University26
Ohio Northern University14
University of Notre Dame8
Indiana University-Bloomington8
Georgetown University6
College of William and Mary6
University of Virginia5
University of Michigan4
Vanderbilt University4
Wake Forest University3
Northwestern University3
University of Kentucky3
Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law3
DePaul University3
Harvard University3
University of Alabama3
George Washington University2
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School2
Washington University2
Boston College2
Duquesne University2
Illinois Institute of Technology-Chicago Kent College of Law2
Michigan State University2
University of Pittsburgh2
University of California-Los Angeles2
Albany Law School2
New York Law School1
Valparaiso University1
University of South Carolina1
University of California-Berkeley1
Willamette University1
New York University1
University of Richmond1
University of Chicago1
Quinnipiac University1
Northeastern University1
Villanova University1
Gonzaga University1
Boston University1
University of Georgia1
Indiana University-Indianapolis1
University of Iowa1
University of San Francisco1
Florida Coastal School of Law1
University of Tennessee1
University of Miami1
Rutgers University-Camden1
George Mason University1
Seton Hall University1
University of Minnesota1
South Texas College of Law1
University of Missouri-Kansas City1
West Virginia University1
University of North Carolina1
Widener University Commonwealth Law School1
Duke University1
University of Oklahoma1
Stetson University1

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