Students at Ohio's law schools are setting the bar high.
- Cleveland State's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law takes top spot
- Ohio State passage rate at 88%
- University of Toledo passage rate at 84%
The state supreme court announced passage rates for Ohio's most recent bar exam Tuesday.
Cleveland State's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law took the top spot for Ohio schools where 93% of first-time test takers passed.
Ohio State's passage rate clocked in at 88%, and the University of Toledo had an 84% passage rate.
Ohio State had more first time test takers than any other school and almost 50 more people pass on the first try than anyone else.
The new lawyers will be sworn in during a special session of the Supreme Court on November 13 at the Palace Theatre in Columbus.
O-S-U has the state's highest ranked law school, according to US News and World Report.
The latest rankings had Ohio State as the thirty-second best law school in the nation. Case Western Reserve University and the University of Cincinnati came in tied at sixty-five and Cleveland State was ranked one-hundred and thirteenth.
Overall in Ohio, seventy-nine percent of aspiring lawyers passed the July exam on the first attempt.