What Law Grads Earn, Nat’l Jurist, Spr. 2020, at 16:
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Education has unveiled median salaries earned by first-year graduates [in the Class of 2016].
Here are the Top 50 law schools with the lowest average debt-to-income ratios of their graduates with federal student loan debt:
| Rank | School | Ratio |
| 1 | Stanford | 0.77 |
| 2 | Harvard | 0.84 |
| 3 | Duke | 0.85 |
| 4 | Chicago | 0.86 |
| 4 | Penn | 0.86 |
| 6 | Cornell | 0.88 |
| 7 | BYU | 0.91 |
| 7 | Northwestern | 0.91 |
| 9 | Columbia | 0.92 |
| 10 | Yale | 0.98 |
| 11 | Iowa | 0.99 |
| 12 | Connecticut | 1.01 |
| 13 | Washington University | 1.02 |
| 14 | NYU | 1.05 |
| 14 | Virginia | 1.05 |
| 16 | Wisconsin | 1.10 |
| 17 | Georgia State | 1.11 |
| 18 | UC-Berkeley | 1.12 |
| 19 | Boston College | 1.14 |
| 19 | Michigan | 1.14 |
| 19 | Temple | 1.14 |
| 22 | Nebraska | 1.16 |
| 22 | Tennessee | 1.16 |
| 22 | Texas Tech | 1.16 |
| 22 | Wayne State | 1.16 |
| 26 | Texas | 1.18 |
| 27 | Arkansas-Fayetteville | 1.19 |
| 27 | Vanderbilt | 1.19 |
| 29 | Mitchell Hamline | 1.21 |
| 30 | North Dakota | 1.26 |
| 30 | UCLA | 1.26 |
| 32 | Kansas | 1.27 |
| 33 | Kentucky | 1.28 |
| 34 | Mississippi | 1.32 |
| 35 | Alabama | 1.33 |
| 36 | Illinois | 1.34 |
| 37 | Houston | 1.36 |
| 38 | Baylor | 1.37 |
| 38 | Boston University | 1.37 |
| 40 | Utah | 1.38 |
| 41 | Hawaii | 1.39 |
| 41 | Oklahoma | 1.39 |
| 43 | Louisiana State | 1.41 |
| 44 | CUNY | 1.43 |
| 44 | Georgia | 1.43 |
| 44 | UNLV | 1.43 |
| 47 | Missouri | 1.45 |
| 47 | USC | 1.45 |
| 49 | Villanova | 1.47 |
| 50 | Tulsa | 1.48 |
