By DANIEL P. TAPAOAN, JR.

True to its name as one of the finest law universities in the country, the Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) officially made it to the list of top performing schools anew in the 2019 bar examination.

With a sterling overall performance, MMSU was recently ranked by the Legal Education Board (LEB) as the number three top performing school, under the category of those with fewer than 63 examinees. 

There were 15 examinees from the MMSU College of Law last year, 11 of which passed, giving the university an institutional passing score of 73.33%.

“I could not be prouder to our law graduates who keep on putting our university in the limelight,” expressed MMSU President Shirley C. Agrupis as she also attributed this feat to the professors of the college.

Based on the official bar examination results issued by the Office of the Bar Confidant of the Supreme Court (SC), the LEB ranked the top performing schools in two categories – those with at least 63 examinees, and those with fewer than the said number of takers.

In its report, the LEB explained that the category threshold was based on the average number of examinees per school in the last four bar examinations, which is 63. It added that a minimum threshold was also set for ranking purposes at 11 examinees. 

With this, the LEB stressed that only schools with at least 11 total examinees were included in the rankings.

Further, the agency explained that the threshold aims “to promote fairness in statistical comparison between differently contextualized institutions.”

It can also be recalled that MMSU was ranked by the LEB as number 10 top performing school in the 2018 bar exam.

The LEB is the government agency in charge of regulating legal education in the country.

Previously, an independent blog ‘Law School Buddy’ announced that MMSU is number 8 top performing school in the 2019 bar exam. School rankings were based on the overall passing percentages, regardless of the number of examinees. (StratCom)