Post by FIUFanatic on Apr 16, 2007 22:50:17 GMT -5
Bar exam results from February are out, and FIU's December graduating class just did excellent on first takers, with 17 out of 18 passing the bar, for a 94% passing rate....tops in the state.
Congrats, once again, to the Dean, students, professors, and staff in making this fledging College already, not just pretty competitive to get in, but high in results.....
Congrats!!
For those um lovers....76.9% good for 5th in the State.... ;D
www.miamiherald.com/416/story/76305.html
Congrats, once again, to the Dean, students, professors, and staff in making this fledging College already, not just pretty competitive to get in, but high in results.....
Congrats!!
For those um lovers....76.9% good for 5th in the State.... ;D
www.miamiherald.com/416/story/76305.html
FIU law students tops on exam
BY LAURA MORALES
llmorales@MiamiHerald.com
Florida International University's most recent crop of law school graduates had the state's highest percentage of first-time examinees passing the bar.
Of the group of 18 students who graduated in December 2006, all but one student passed the bar -- a 94 percent passing rate.
That's a higher percentage of passing first-time bar examinees than those of Florida's nine other accredited law schools.
''This is only our second cycle and the fourth bar exam taken by our students, so this is a special honor,'' said Leonard Strickman, the dean of FIU's College of Law.
FIU's College of Law, which opened in 2002, is the country's newest accredited law school.
The exam was administered in late February in Orlando, according to a news release just issued by the bar examiner' board.
Next on the list: Florida State University, with an 88.2 percent pass rate (30 out of 34 students), and the University of Florida, with an 83.3 percent pass rate (130 out of 156 students).
Rounding out the list of pass rates are Stetson (82.1 percent), University of Miami (76.9 percent), St. Thomas (74.2 percent), Florida Coastal (70.1 percent), Barry (69.2 percent), Florida A&M (52.4 percent) and Nova Southeastern (48 percent).
The 74.2 percent figure is a big improvement for St. Thomas' law school, which last year had a 35.5 percent pass rate for the February exam.
BY LAURA MORALES
llmorales@MiamiHerald.com
Florida International University's most recent crop of law school graduates had the state's highest percentage of first-time examinees passing the bar.
Of the group of 18 students who graduated in December 2006, all but one student passed the bar -- a 94 percent passing rate.
That's a higher percentage of passing first-time bar examinees than those of Florida's nine other accredited law schools.
''This is only our second cycle and the fourth bar exam taken by our students, so this is a special honor,'' said Leonard Strickman, the dean of FIU's College of Law.
FIU's College of Law, which opened in 2002, is the country's newest accredited law school.
The exam was administered in late February in Orlando, according to a news release just issued by the bar examiner' board.
Next on the list: Florida State University, with an 88.2 percent pass rate (30 out of 34 students), and the University of Florida, with an 83.3 percent pass rate (130 out of 156 students).
Rounding out the list of pass rates are Stetson (82.1 percent), University of Miami (76.9 percent), St. Thomas (74.2 percent), Florida Coastal (70.1 percent), Barry (69.2 percent), Florida A&M (52.4 percent) and Nova Southeastern (48 percent).
The 74.2 percent figure is a big improvement for St. Thomas' law school, which last year had a 35.5 percent pass rate for the February exam.
I sure hope he passes next time