Following up on my posts reporting that only 8% of the Class of 2011 landed BigLaw jobs while 40% of prospective law students hope to land BigLaw jobs: the Wall Street Journal Law Blog ranks the 25 law schools with the largest percentage of 2011 graduates in BigLaw jobs. Here are the Top 10, along with their U.S. News rank (with updated data from Law School Transparency):
- Columbia (U.S. News #4) — 61.4%
- Penn (#7) — 58.0%
- Northwestern (#12) — 53.3%
- Stanford (#2) — 49.5%
- Harvard (#3) — 48.7%
- Duke (#11) — 44.9%
- Chicago (#5) — 44.8%
- NYU (#6) — 43.1%
- UC-Berkeley (#7) — 41.6%
- Cornell (#14) — 38.8%
Yale, #1 in U.S. News, is #15 in BigLaw jobs (33.2%).
15 law schools did not report a single 2011 grad with a BigLaw job: Appalachian, Charlotte, CUNY, John Marshall-Atlanta, Liberty, North Carolina Central, Phoenix, Regent, Arkansas-Little Rock, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, District of Columbia, Wyoming, and Western New England.
