UT Law’s First-Time Bar Exam Pass Rate Increases

The Texas Board of Law Examiners has released the February 2023 bar examination statistics.

The University of Texas School of Law had nine first-time examinees, eight of whom passed.

There were another 25 repeaters, 16 of whom passed.

The first-time pass rate for UT increased from 80 percent in February 2022 to 88.89 percent in February 2023.

The repeater pass rate, however, declined from 81.25 percent in February 2022 to 64 percent in February 2023.

Of all the law schools, UT’s repeater pass rate for February 2023 was the highest.

Texas Tech had the exact same number of first-time examinees as UT, and had the same pass rate.

However, Texas Tech had 21 repeaters, nine of whom failed. Despite this, Texas Tech’s yearover-year repeater pass rate still increased from 50 percent in February 2022 to 57.14 in February 2023.

Baylor had 30 first-time examinees, 23 of whom passed.

SMU had 10 first-time examinees, five of whom passed.

South Texas College of Law had 71 first-time examinees, 55 of whom passed.

St. Mary’s had 29 first-time examinees, 14 of whom passed.

Texas A&M had six first-time examinees, all of whom passed.

TSU had 28 first-time examinees, 17 of whom passed.

University of Houston had 23 first-time examinees, 16 of whom passed.

University of North Texas had eight first-time examinees, three of whom passed.

Additionally, there were 139 first-time examinees who had received their J.D. from out of state, 68 of whom passed.

There were 69 attorneys educat- ed in the U.S. and licensed in another jurisdiction who were first-time examinees, 48 of whom passed.

There were 55 graduates from an accredited foreign law school or were otherwise non-U.S.-educated attorneys who were first-time examinees, 16 of whom passed.

There were no first-time examinees who were seeking reinstatement. A total of 1,151 first-time examinees and repeaters took the exam, 44.57 percent of whom passed. This was a decline year-over-year, from a 50.33 percent pass rate in February 2022.