Bar Passage Rate & Job Placement
The Idaho bar examination passage rate was 81.4 percent for first-time takers in 2009. The overall bar passage rate, including states like Washington, Oregon, and Utah, was 77.18%. About 40% of Idaho graduates have employment commitments at graduation (before taking the bar examination), and 88% are employed within nine months of graduation or pursuing additional graduate degrees (2008 graduating class data). Among those employed, 37% were employed in private practice, 24 percent in judicial clerkships, and 30% percent in government or public interest law. The average starting salary is $51,079. The College of Law was recognized by National Jurist Magazine as one of the top 30 law schools in the country for the percentage of its graduates that entered public interest law after graduation.
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