Bernard A. Burk (North Carolina) reports some eye-popping numbers of unemployed graduates hired on a short-term basis by several law schools to improve their placement data, which count 18% in the U.S. News rankings (employed at graduation (4%) and employed nine months after graduation (14%)):
Reported
School Hires
Recalculated
School
Rank
@ Grad
@ 9 Mos
@ Grad
@ 9 Mos
@ Grad
@ 9 Mos
Wash & Lee
24
89.4%
90.2%
41%
10%
48.4%
80.2%
Vanderbilt
16
89.6%
91.6%
21%
11%
68.6%
80.6%
Minnesota
19
91.9%
14.1%
77.8%
Notre Dame
22
91.3%
12.2%
79.1%
Arizona St.
26
98.2%
12.0%
86.2%
NYU
6
96.6%
7.6%
89.0%
Update: Paul Campos (Colorado), How Bad Things Really Are:
Here are a few numbers to add to Burk's list:
- Fordham: 70 graduates (14.7% of those reporting employment status)
- Virginia: 40 graduates (10.9% of the class)
- Michigan State: 37 graduates (10.6% of those reporting employment status)
- Ohio State: Approximately 14 (6.7% of the class … )
