Northern Kentucky University’s Chase College of Law is the top law school in Kentucky for graduates passing the 2016 Kentucky bar exam.
Among the Commonwealth’s three law schools, Chase had the highest percentage of graduates who passed the February and July bar exams, with a combined passage rate of 79.6 percent. That rate was more than three points above the statewide average of 76.2 percent.
“The Chase faculty is always proud of the success so many of our graduates have in their careers, and we are particularly proud when that success begins with passing the bar exam,” said Dean Jeffrey A. Standen. “The culmination of law school for a lawyer is not until months after graduation, with the bar exam. Chase students apply themselves diligently to become graduates, and they continue that diligence in preparing for the bar exam to become lawyers.”
The 2016 bar exam is the first administered since the law school last year launched Chase Foundations, a program to help students review their legal knowledge in the context of a bar exam. Chase Foundations includes reviews of key legal doctrines during the final two years of law school, and students must pass two bar exam-style tests in order to graduate.
Since 1893, NKU Chase College of Law has educated individuals who make immediate contributions to the legal profession and to their communities.
With a collegial, student-centered environment in full-time and part-time programs, Chase provides an intellectually rigorous education in legal theory and professional skills; offers practical training through its curricular offerings, co-curricular programs, and specialized centers; and instills the ideals of ethics, leadership, and public engagement.
Chase educates more than 400 students from 22 states and 99 undergraduate institutions. It is approved for legal education by the American Bar Association.