For the second consecutive year, the UC Davis law school ranked first in the state for its graduates' bar passage rate, with 92.9 percent of first-time takers passing the July California bar exam. Stanford University was second with a 91.1 percent passage rate, and UC Berkeley was third, with a passage rate of 90.1 percent for first-time takers. The overall passage rate for all UC Davis takers of the July bar exam, including those who had taken it previously, was 90.1 percent, also the highest in the state, again followed by Stanford and Berkeley. Overall, 3,192 graduates of American Bar Association-approved law schools in California took the exam with an 83.1 percent passage rate, notes Rex Perschbacher, associate dean of the UC Davis law school. Of the campus's 156 first-time takers, 145 passed the exam in July.