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Starting Salaries and Law School Student Debt

Austen Parrish
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From Above the Law and a recent US News article.

U.S. News recently put together a ranking of the 25 schools with the highest salary-to-debt ratios in the private sector among 2024-2025 graduates. Did your law school or alma mater make the cut? Here are the Top 10.

You can read more here: Staci Zaretsky, The Law Schools Where Starting Salaries For Graduates Exceed Their Student Debt (2026), Above The Law, July 22, 2026; see also Sarah Wood, 25 Law Schools Where You Can Pay Off Your Debt, U.S. News, July 21, 2026. A listing of 25 schools based on salary-to-debt ratios is here.

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Austen Parrish
Austen Parrish is the 2025 President of the Association of American Law Schools and Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law at University of California, Irvine School of Law. He also serves as co-editor of the Journal of Legal Education. Before joining UC Irvine, he served as dean of Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Southwestern Law School.
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