…And now, what you crave: law schools ranked by the percentage of their class of 2017 graduates in full-time, long-term, bar-passage-required jobs.
PERCENT GRADUATES EMPLOYED FULL-TIME/LONG-TERM IN BAR-PASSAGE-REQUIRED JOBS (EXCL. LAW-SCHOOL-FUNDED JOBS) | ||||
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RANK | LAW SCHOOL | ’16 | ’17 | CHANGE |
1. | Duke | 92.4% | 93.8% | 1.4% |
2. | Columbia | 91.5% | 92.8% | 1.3% |
3. | Cornell | 90.2% | 92.1% | 1.9% |
4. | Chicago | 93.5% | 92.1% | -1.4% |
5. | Virginia | 88.8% | 91.6% | 2.8% |
6. | Pennsylvania | 89.1% | 90.6% | 1.5% |
7. | Michigan | 91.1% | 90.4% | -0.7% |
8. | New York University | 88.9% | 88.6% | -0.2% |
9. | California-Berkeley | 84.2% | 88.2% | 4.0% |
10. | Harvard | 88.0% | 86.7% | -1.2% |
11. | Vanderbilt | 86.3% | 86.2% | -0.1% |
12. | Washington University | 80.1% | 85.8% | 5.7% |
13. | Southern California | 70.0% | 85.6% | 15.6% |
14. | Georgia | 78.3% | 84.0% | 5.7% |
15. | Alabama | 75.9% | 83.2% | 7.3% |
16. | Stanford | 89.6% | 82.7% | -6.9% |
17. | Seton Hall | 80.1% | 82.6% | 2.5% |
18. | Baylor | 77.2% | 82.3% | 5.1% |
19. | Northwestern | 81.5% | 82.3% | 0.7% |
20. | Tulsa | 61.4% | 81.4% | 19.9% |
21. | Louisiana State | 63.6% | 81.3% | 17.7% |
22. | Oklahoma | 75.5% | 80.8% | 5.2% |
23. | Notre Dame | 76.2% | 80.7% | 4.5% |
24. | Minnesota | 74.4% | 80.5% | 6.1% |
25. | Cardozo, Yeshiva | 74.6% | 80.1% | 5.6% |
26. | Washington and Lee | 76.8% | 79.8% | 3.0% |
27. | Kentucky | 70.7% | 79.6% | 8.9% |
28. | Boston College | 80.6% | 79.4% | -1.2% |
29. | Temple | 68.8% | 79.3% | 10.5% |
30. | Texas | 79.8% | 79.2% | -0.6% |
31. | California-Los Angeles | 75.6% | 79.1% | 3.4% |
32. | Illinois | 78.9% | 78.2% | -0.7% |
33. | Iowa | 71.0% | 77.4% | 6.4% |
34. | New Mexico | 68.1% | 77.4% | 9.2% |
35. | New Hampshire | 63.5% | 77.0% | 13.5% |
36. | Rutgers | 73.1% | 76.8% | 3.8% |
37. | Georgetown | 74.4% | 76.8% | 2.4% |
38. | Lincoln Memorial | 76.5% | 76.5% | 0.0% |
39. | Ohio State | 76.5% | 76.4% | -0.2% |
40. | Colorado | 66.8% | 76.2% | 9.3% |
41. | Utah | 59.5% | 76.1% | 16.6% |
42. | William and Mary | 72.0% | 76.0% | 4.0% |
43. | Hofstra | 73.2% | 75.9% | 2.7% |
44. | Florida | 71.2% | 75.9% | 4.7% |
45. | Southern Methodist | 75.2% | 75.8% | 0.6% |
46. | Cincinnati | 71.2% | 75.7% | 4.6% |
47. | Belmont | 71.0% | 75.6% | 4.6% |
48. | Boston University | 71.0% | 75.6% | 4.5% |
49. | Missouri (Columbia) | 67.5% | 75.5% | 8.0% |
50. | Villanova | 69.2% | 75.5% | 6.3% |
51. | Nevada | 72.4% | 75.2% | 2.8% |
52. | Wake Forest | 73.4% | 75.1% | 1.8% |
53. | California-Irvine | 71.2% | 75.0% | 3.8% |
54. | Yale | 78.8% | 75.0% | -3.8% |
55. | Miami | 64.4% | 75.0% | 10.6% |
56. | Pace | 71.9% | 74.7% | 2.8% |
57. | West Virginia | 62.6% | 74.5% | 11.9% |
58. | Montana | 71.8% | 74.4% | 2.6% |
59. | Arizona State | 68.9% | 74.2% | 5.3% |
60. | Wisconsin | 71.4% | 74.2% | 2.9% |
61. | Missouri (Kansas City) | 65.2% | 74.1% | 8.9% |
62. | Nebraska | 65.3% | 74.0% | 8.8% |
63. | Tennessee | 65.2% | 73.0% | 7.8% |
64. | St. Louis | 66.2% | 72.7% | 6.5% |
65. | Florida International | 70.6% | 72.3% | 1.7% |
66. | St. John’s | 72.1% | 72.0% | -0.2% |
67. | Penn State (Penn State Law) | 66.3% | 71.9% | 5.6% |
68. | Emory | 70.1% | 71.9% | 1.8% |
69. | Brooklyn | 66.9% | 71.7% | 4.8% |
70. | California-Davis | 63.0% | 71.3% | 8.2% |
71. | Louisville | 60.7% | 71.2% | 10.6% |
72. | Marquette | 68.1% | 71.2% | 3.1% |
73. | Ohio Northern | 48.6% | 71.2% | 22.5% |
74. | Drexel | 75.5% | 71.0% | -4.5% |
75. | Albany | 70.2% | 70.9% | 0.7% |
76. | North Carolina | 67.7% | 70.8% | 3.1% |
77. | Florida State | 72.0% | 70.4% | -1.5% |
78. | Denver | 62.9% | 70.2% | 7.3% |
79. | Fordham | 74.5% | 70.2% | -4.3% |
80. | George Washington | 67.2% | 69.8% | 2.5% |
81. | Northeastern | 57.2% | 69.7% | 12.5% |
82. | Memphis | 67.0% | 69.7% | 2.7% |
83. | Mercer | 60.6% | 69.6% | 9.0% |
84. | Georgia State | 67.0% | 69.6% | 2.6% |
85. | Texas Tech | 68.7% | 69.5% | 0.9% |
86. | City University | 66.3% | 69.1% | 2.8% |
87. | Syracuse | 60.2% | 69.1% | 8.9% |
88. | Washington | 67.3% | 68.9% | 1.6% |
89. | Kansas | 66.1% | 68.6% | 2.5% |
90. | Wyoming | 74.6% | 68.6% | -6.1% |
91. | Creighton | 57.5% | 68.3% | 10.8% |
92. | Loyola (CA) | 62.1% | 68.2% | 6.1% |
93. | South Carolina | 68.4% | 68.1% | -0.3% |
94. | Arkansas (Fayetteville) | 64.5% | 68.1% | 3.6% |
95. | Touro | 62.6% | 68.0% | 5.4% |
96. | Richmond | 64.2% | 67.8% | 3.6% |
97. | Indiana (Bloomington) | 69.6% | 67.2% | -2.4% |
98. | Penn State (Dickinson Law) | 82.4% | 67.2% | -15.1% |
99. | Willamette | 38.6% | 67.0% | 28.4% |
100. | Houston | 67.5% | 66.2% | -1.3% |
101. | Washburn | 68.0% | 66.0% | -2.0% |
102. | Oklahoma City | 63.5% | 65.6% | 2.1% |
103. | Connecticut | 71.5% | 65.4% | -6.2% |
104. | Arizona | 68.5% | 64.8% | -3.7% |
105. | Texas A&M [Wesleyan] | 59.5% | 64.5% | 5.0% |
106. | Tulane | 63.3% | 64.0% | 0.7% |
107. | Liberty | 55.2% | 63.8% | 8.6% |
108. | Stetson | 56.5% | 63.5% | 7.0% |
109. | Duquesne | 62.9% | 63.5% | 0.6% |
110. | Arkansas (Little Rock) | 50.4% | 63.3% | 12.9% |
111. | Howard | 47.8% | 63.1% | 15.3% |
112. | Pittsburgh | 61.7% | 63.0% | 1.3% |
113. | Campbell | 49.5% | 62.9% | 13.3% |
114. | Gonzaga | 61.6% | 62.6% | 1.0% |
115. | Concordia | 60.5% | 62.5% | 2.0% |
116. | North Dakota | 51.3% | 62.5% | 11.2% |
117. | Samford | 56.9% | 62.3% | 5.5% |
118. | Mississippi | 57.0% | 62.2% | 5.2% |
119. | Loyola (IL) | 57.4% | 62.2% | 4.7% |
120. | Drake | 59.3% | 62.1% | 2.8% |
121. | Quinnipiac | 44.7% | 61.9% | 17.2% |
122. | Oregon | 51.2% | 61.5% | 10.4% |
123. | SUNY Buffalo | 63.2% | 61.2% | -2.1% |
124. | George Mason | 64.7% | 60.5% | -4.1% |
125. | Idaho | 67.2% | 60.4% | -6.8% |
126. | Baltimore | 51.6% | 60.3% | 8.6% |
127. | St. Mary’s | 60.5% | 60.2% | -0.3% |
128. | Case Western Reserve | 56.6% | 60.1% | 3.6% |
129. | Pepperdine | 54.1% | 60.1% | 5.9% |
130. | Northern Illinois | 59.1% | 60.0% | 0.9% |
131. | Brigham Young | 64.6% | 60.0% | -4.6% |
132. | Chicago-Kent, IIT | 56.2% | 59.6% | 3.4% |
133. | Texas Southern | 52.3% | 59.4% | 7.1% |
134. | San Diego | 46.8% | 59.3% | 12.5% |
135. | Michigan State | 56.2% | 59.3% | 3.1% |
136. | Akron | 46.8% | 59.2% | 12.4% |
137. | Widener (Commonwealth) | 49.1% | 59.0% | 10.0% |
138. | Regent | 64.8% | 59.0% | -5.8% |
139. | California-Hastings | 51.3% | 58.9% | 7.6% |
140. | Hawaii | 53.2% | 58.3% | 5.2% |
141. | South Dakota | 70.7% | 58.2% | -12.5% |
142. | Seattle | 52.2% | 57.9% | 5.7% |
143. | Maryland | 59.2% | 57.1% | -2.0% |
144. | Nova Southeastern | 49.0% | 57.1% | 8.1% |
145. | Loyola (LA) | 46.8% | 57.0% | 10.3% |
146. | Wayne State | 61.8% | 57.0% | -4.8% |
147. | Santa Clara | 47.4% | 56.6% | 9.2% |
148. | John Marshall (Chicago) | 51.7% | 56.5% | 4.8% |
149. | Lewis and Clark | 53.1% | 56.3% | 3.2% |
150. | Vermont | 50.9% | 56.1% | 5.2% |
151. | Maine | 63.4% | 55.4% | -8.0% |
152. | Toledo | 36.4% | 55.3% | 18.9% |
153. | Indiana (Indianapolis) | 48.8% | 55.2% | 6.4% |
154. | Southern Illinois | 57.3% | 55.2% | -2.1% |
155. | Massachusetts — Dartmouth | 39.6% | 55.1% | 15.5% |
156. | Catholic | 38.4% | 55.0% | 16.5% |
157. | DePaul | 53.8% | 54.8% | 0.9% |
158. | Chapman | 49.4% | 54.7% | 5.4% |
159. | St. Thomas (FL) | 48.0% | 54.7% | 6.7% |
160. | Widener (Delaware) | 47.4% | 54.1% | 6.7% |
161. | Roger Williams | 51.2% | 54.1% | 2.9% |
162. | Capital | 37.8% | 53.8% | 16.0% |
163. | California Western | 46.6% | 53.8% | 7.2% |
164. | St. Thomas (MN) | 55.7% | 53.3% | -2.4% |
165. | South Texas-Houston | 52.9% | 53.0% | 0.2% |
166. | American | 52.8% | 53.0% | 0.2% |
167. | Appalachian | 35.7% | 52.4% | 16.7% |
168. | Mitchell|Hamline | 57.6% | 52.3% | -5.3% |
169. | Cleveland State | 52.1% | 52.1% | 0.0% |
170. | Mississippi College | 59.3% | 51.6% | -7.6% |
171. | Northern Kentucky | 48.3% | 51.6% | 3.3% |
172. | North Texas-Dallas | N/A | 51.5% | N/A |
173. | New York Law School | 53.3% | 51.0% | -2.3% |
174. | Dayton | 49.4% | 50.0% | 0.6% |
175. | Faulkner | 58.1% | 49.4% | -8.8% |
176. | San Francisco | 32.9% | 49.0% | 16.2% |
177. | Pacific, McGeorge | 40.3% | 47.3% | 7.0% |
178. | Suffolk | 43.2% | 46.7% | 3.5% |
179. | Florida A&M | 37.5% | 46.6% | 9.1% |
180. | Barry | 33.6% | 46.3% | 12.7% |
181. | Southern University | 45.5% | 45.6% | 0.1% |
182. | Charleston | 53.2% | 44.5% | -8.6% |
183. | Western State | 33.0% | 43.8% | 10.9% |
184. | Detroit Mercy | 33.6% | 43.7% | 10.1% |
185. | Southwestern | 38.9% | 43.5% | 4.6% |
186. | Western New England | 42.7% | 42.6% | -0.1% |
187. | Florida Coastal | 36.1% | 40.8% | 4.6% |
188. | Atlanta’s John Marshall | 35.0% | 40.7% | 5.8% |
189. | Ave Maria | 57.1% | 39.5% | -17.6% |
190. | Valparaiso | 35.6% | 38.4% | 2.8% |
191. | New England | 38.6% | 38.2% | -0.4% |
192. | Golden Gate | 26.8% | 37.9% | 11.1% |
193. | Arizona Summit [Phoenix] | 38.0% | 34.4% | -3.6% |
194. | Elon | 33.7% | 34.1% | 0.4% |
195. | La Verne | 13.7% | 31.6% | 17.9% |
196. | WMU Cooley | 30.5% | 30.7% | 0.2% |
197. | North Carolina Central | 35.0% | 30.1% | -4.9% |
198. | Whittier | 29.7% | 29.5% | -0.2% |
199. | District of Columbia | 34.0% | 26.8% | -7.3% |
200. | Thomas Jefferson | 21.9% | 23.6% | 1.7% |
201. | Puerto Rico | 22.5% | 20.5% | -2.0% |
202. | Inter American | 9.9% | 8.8% | -1.1% |
203. | Pontifical Catholic | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.7% |
204. | Charlotte | 23.5% | N/A | N/A |
TOTAL (EXCL. P.R.) | 62.5% | 67.1% | 4.6% | |
10TH PERCENTILE (EXCL. P.R.) | 37.8% | 45.6% | 7.8% | |
25TH PERCENTILE (EXCL. P.R.) | 51.2% | 56.1% | 4.9% | |
MEDIAN (EXCL. P.R.) | 62.9% | 66.1% | 3.2% | |
75TH PERCENTILE (EXCL. P.R.) | 71.2% | 75.6% | 4.4% | |
90TH PERCENTILE (EXCL. P.R.) | 80.1% | 82.6% | 2.5% | |
MEAN (EXCL. P.R.) | 60.7% | 64.8% | 4.1% |
One school I omitted was Indiana Tech, which had graduating classes for the last two years but didn’t report any graduate employment outcomes for ’16 (much less ’17). The ’16 class had only 18 graduates, so it’s not a big loss, but to pound my fists again, the ABA should be maintaining data on all law schools on its required disclosures site and not just ones that have chosen not to shut down. It’s downright Orwellian.
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Because I hope to merge all my employment reports in the future, here’s a list of all of them.
- “CLASS OF 2017 EMPLOYMENT REPORT: Take That, JD-Advantage Jobs!“
- “CLASS OF 2016 EMPLOYMENT REPORT (Corrected)“
- “Change in Graduate Outcomes Driven by Small Jobs” [’15]
- “CLASS OF 2015 EMPLOYMENT REPORT“
- “Law Grad Jobs Unequal Like Income in Corrupt Countries” [’14]
- “CLASS OF 2014 EMPLOYMENT REPORT (Updated)“
- “CLASS OF 2013 EMPLOYMENT REPORT“
- “Quick Comment on the 2012 Employment Data“
- “Class of ’11 This is Your JD on Versatility“
- “Those of You Who Wanted Transparency…” [’10]