The Philippine Bar Examination is the professional licensure examination for lawyers in the Philippines. It is the only professional licensure exam in the country that is not supervised by the Professional Regulation Commission. The exam is exclusively administered by the Supreme Court of the Philippines through the Supreme Court Bar Examination Committee.

Law schools with the highest bar passing rates from 1996 to 2005 include:

Ateneo de Manila Law School – 89.19%
San Beda College of Law – 85.27%
University of the Philippines College of Law – 85.19%
University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Civil Law – 56.70%
Far Eastern University Institute of Law – 26.25%

Results of the 2009 Bar Exams (held last September 2009 at the De La Salle campus) should be published by the Supreme Court by the end of March 2010 or first week of April 2010. Please bookmark or subscribe to this site so we can notify you once the list has been released.