Those who monitor the progress of the
Ave Maria School of Law may find it interesting to compare
AMSL to both another new Catholic law school (
St. Thomas, in Minneapolis), and to an established Catholic law school (
Catholic University of America). Data compiled by the ABA and reported each year by
Cooley Law School as a public service is below (click to see a larger image):
This information represents an objective snapshot of the school - and demonstrates that the school is doing rather well. Check out the bar-passage rate (best in the nation, and far better than both schools) and employment rate (almost equal to veteran Catholic U., and 35% better than fellow-upstart St. Thomas U.). One statistic that is not in the graphic but is in Cooley's report and is based on the ABA data: Ave Maria has the number one rating of all law schools in the country for "program achievement" (an objective measure of the effectiveness of a school's academic program).
Kudos to Dean Dobranski and the entire law school community.