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This has led to a dramatic decrease in the national passing rate of bar examinees, from an all-time high of 75.17% in 1954 to an all-time low of 16.59% in 1999 (all-time low should have been the single digit 5% national passing rate for the 2007 bar examination if the Supreme Court did not lower the passing average to 70% and lowered the ...
In the 2016 Bar Examination results released by the Supreme Court on May 3, 2017, a hundred percent of the first time takers from the college passed the bar exam. The results also revealed that 76.19 percent of the retakers from the college successfully passed the said exam. This gives the university a high passing rate of 83.33 percent ...
However, the Revised Rules of Court and Supreme Court Circulars allow Filipino graduates of Philippine law schools (and subject to certain conditions, Filipino graduates of foreign law schools) to take the bar, necessarily excluding non-law graduates and foreigners who have law degrees from taking part in the exercise.
It was likewise the country's top performing law school, with a passing rate of 89.73%, in the 2015 bar exams. [26] Since 2019, UP Law is ranked 251-300 in the QS World University Rankings among all law schools in the world. [27] It is the sole Philippine law school in the list.
The bar exams in Japan yield the fewest successful candidates worldwide. The old format of the examinations, last held in 2010 saw only 6% passing the exam. With the new format of examinations—even after extensive reforms and a new mandatory duration of graduate school education for a period of two years—the pass rate is only 22%.
The college has the following programs: [4] Juris Doctor (J.D.) - a standard four-year law degree program covering all subjects in the Philippine Bar Examinations.; Bar Refresher Course (two semesters) - a special review program for law graduates in preparation for the annual Bar Examinations.
It has also achieved one of the highest bar passing rates and largest number of law graduates among law schools in the country. [2] A famous alumnus, Florenz D. Regalado , is a Retired Justice of the Supreme Court, an established author, and the holder of the highest bar exam grade in the post-war [ 3 ] history of the bar exams in the Philippines.
The Board is composed of a Chairman, who must preferably a former justice of the Supreme Court or of the Court of Appeals, and four other regular members, each representing the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Philippine Association of Law Schools, the ranks of active law practitioners and the law students' sector.