Ateneo nonetheless on prime, UP and UST dominate prime 20

Six of the topnotchers are from College of the Philippines, whereas 5 are from College of Santo Tomas

MANILA, Philippines – The 2025 Bar Examinations noticed one of many highest passing charges in current historical past at 48.98% or almost 5 passers out of 10 examinees.

This translated to 5,594 out of 11,420 examinees, based on this 12 months’s Bar chairperson, Supreme Courtroom (SC) Affiliate Justice Amy Lazaro Javier.

The 2025 passing fee was larger in comparison with the numbers within the final three years: 43.47% in 2022, 36.77% in 2023, and 37.84% in 2024.

Like in earlier years, the SC additionally launched the listing of top-performing legislation faculties, divided into two classes: the variety of Bar candidates and first-time Bar candidates. Ateneo de Manila College’s legislation faculty dominated these classes.

In 2023 and 2024, Ateneo had the best passing fee each for first-time takers and all Bar candidates.

For 2025, Ateneo topped the legislation faculties with over 100 takers (for all candidates), with a 96.52% score, adopted by the College of the Philippines (UP) in the identical class with 94.63%, and the College of Santo Tomas (UST) with 87.16%.

The Jesuit-run college additionally posted the best score amongst legislation faculties with over 100 examinees (for first-time takers), with 98.11%.

UP is at second with 96.83%, adopted by UST with 96.30%.

Particular person topnotchers

Like in 2024, the examinee who garnered the best score got here from UP — Jhenroniel Sanchez — who garnered 92.70%. Sanchez’s fellow UP alumnus, Kyle Christian Tutor, topped the examination with a grade of 85.77% final 12 months.

In the meantime, UST’s Spinel Albert Declaro ranked second with 92.46% score, adopted by one other UST alum, Alaiza Adviento, at third spot with 91.91%.

Six UP graduates and 5 UST (4 from UST Manila, one from UST Legazpi) graduates entered the highest 20 listing.

Right here’s the total listing of the highest 20 examinees: