The Kobe University School of Law comprises about 1,200 students (including 330 postgraduate students) and 70 full-time faculty members. It regularly ranks among the top law schools of Japanese universities both for legal research and for the qualification rate of its J.D. Program graduates as Japanese lawyers (2015: ranked 4th). The law faculty is part of the Kobe University community, which includes about 16,000 students across 4 campuses.
| University | No. of Examinees | No. of Successful | Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hitotsubashi U | 142 | 79 | 55.6% |
| 2 | Kyoto U | 240 | 128 | 53.3% |
| 3 | U of Tokyo | 305 | 149 | 48.9% |
| 4 | Kobe U | 149 | 72 | 48.3% |
| 5 | Keio U | 347 | 158 | 45.5% |
| 6 | Aichi U | 22 | 8 | 36.4% |
| 7 | Chuo U | 475 | 170 | 35.8% |
| 8 | Waseda U | 471 | 145 | 30.8% |
| 9 | Osaka U | 165 | 48 | 29.1% |
| 10 | Hokkaido U | 147 | 42 | 28.6% |
| … | … | … | … | … |
| National Total | 8,016 | 1,850 | 23.1% |
2015 Bar Examination of Japan