Surpassing Passage Rates
Graduates Surpass Florida Statewide Bar Passage Rate by 7 Percentage Points
The Florida Supreme Court released the results of the July 2011 Florida Bar Examination, which consists of the General Bar Examination (Part A and Part B) and Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE). NSU Law Center graduates surpassed the statewide average on both exams. NSU law graduates had a passage rate of 87.5 percent on the Florida Bar Exam and a passage rate of 86.9 percent on the MPRE. The state's overall pass rate for the General Bar Examination was 80.1 percent and for the MPRE was 79.2 percent. On Tuesday, September 22, the Law Center held a ceremony for graduates to be sworn into The Florida Bar by six judges: Chief Judge Melanie May ('81) and Judges Robert Diaz ('84), Thomas Lynch ('77), Susan Greehawt ('93), Leslie Rothenberg ('86) and Ilona Holmes at a special ceremony at the Law Center. The ceremony honored the recent graduates for accomplishing their goal of becoming attorneys, having successfully completed three or four rigorous years of law school, a stringent character and fitness evaluation by The Bar, and the Bar exam. Family, friends, faculty members and Law Center administrators cheered as the graduates' years of hard work culminated in a welcomed membership in the Bar.