From Saturday: Law School Transparency: Class of 2011 Legal Employment and Underemployment Numbers Are In, and Far Worse Than Expected:
Mister Hart, here is a dime. Take it, call your mother, and tell her there is serious doubt about you ever becoming a lawyer.
– Kingsfield, The Paper ChaseThe ABA has released Class of 2011 job outcome data for all domestic ABA-approved law schools. The data are far more granular than ever before. Law School Transparency has analyzed the data and made the school-specific data available on its website for easy comparison.
The ABA data shed considerable light on how poorly the 2011 graduates fared. We can now say with certainty that the employment picture is far worse than previously reported. Only 55.2% of all graduates were known to be employed in full-time, long-term legal jobs. A devastating 26.4% of all graduates were underemployed.
Here are the Top 25 and Bottom 25 law schools ranked by the percentage of the Class of 2011 with full-time long-term legal jobs:
|
School (U.S News Rank) |
Full-Time Job % |
School (U.S News Rank) |
Full-Time Job % |
|
|
1 |
Virginia (7) |
94.7% |
171. Phoenix (Tier 2) |
37.4% |
|
2 |
Columbia (4) |
94.1% |
172. Southern (Tier 2) |
37.1% |
|
3 |
Stanford (2) |
91.1% |
173. CUNY (113) |
36.9% |
|
4 |
NYU (6) |
90.1% |
174. Detroit (Tier 2) |
36.8% |
|
5 |
Harvard (3) |
90.1% |
175. Florida Coastal (Tier 2) |
36.6% |
|
6 |
Chicago (5) |
88.2% |
176. Toledo (129) |
36.5% |
|
7 |
Yale (1) |
87.8% |
177. N. Kentucky (Tier 2) |
36.3% |
|
8 |
Pennsylvania (7) |
84.3% |
178. Pace (142) |
36.0% |
|
9 |
Duke (11) |
82.1% |
179. American (49) |
35.5% |
|
10 |
G. Washington (20) |
81.3% |
180. NY Law School (135) |
35.5% |
|
11 |
LSU (79) |
81.3% |
181. Quinnipiac (113) |
34.6% |
|
12 |
UC-Berkeley (7) |
80.0% |
182. Southwestern (129) |
34.6% |
|
13 |
St. Mary's (Tier 2) |
78.3% |
183. New England (Tier 2) |
34.4% |
|
14 |
Alabama (29) |
78.0% |
184. San Francisco (106) |
34.2% |
|
15 |
Northwestern (12) |
77.0% |
185. Florida A&M (Tier 2) |
34.2% |
|
16 |
Cornell (14) |
76.1% |
186. Ave Maria (Tier 2) |
33.0% |
|
17 |
Michigan (10) |
75.5% |
187. La Verne (Tier 2) |
32.8% |
|
18 |
Mississippi College (Tier 2) |
75.3% |
188. Western St. (Tier 2) |
32.2% |
|
19 |
Arizona (43) |
75.3% |
189. Liberty (Tier 2) |
31.1% |
|
20 |
Vanderbilt (16) |
73.7% |
190. Appalachian (Tier 2) |
30.8% |
|
21 |
Kentucky (62) |
71.9% |
191. Western N.E. (Tier 2) |
30.1% |
|
22 |
Campbell (Tier 2) |
71.4% |
192. T. Jefferson (Tier 2) |
26.0% |
|
23 |
Baylor (51) |
70.1% |
193. Golden Gate (Tier 2) |
22.0% |
|
24 |
Texas (16) |
69.9% |
194. D.C. (Tier 2) |
20.5% |
|
25 |
Florida State (51) |
69.5% |
195. Whittier (Tier 2) |
17.1% |
Schools ranked in the U.S. News Top 35 with the largest underperformance in the full-time long-term legal job rankings:
- – 86: Boston University (26 (U.S. News rank), 112 (full-time long-term legal job rank))
- – 82: U. Washington (20, 102)
- – 80: Illinois (35, 115)
- – 72: Indiana-Bloomington (26, 98)
- – 68: Washington & Lee (24, 92)
- – 60: William & Mary (35, 95)
- – 54: UC-Davis (29, 83)
- – 50: Fordham (29, 79)
- – 51: Minnesota (19, 70)
- – 49: Washington U. (23, 72)
- – 41: UCLA (15, 56)
- – 37: Georgetown (13, 50)
- – 32: Notre Dame (22, 54)
- – 22: USC (18, 40)
Update:
- ABA Journal, Only 55% of 2011 Law Grads Had Full-Time, Long-Term Legal Jobs, Analysis Shows
- Above the Law, ABA Employment Stats Are Just As Dire As We Expected
- National Law Journal, ABA: Only 55% of Law Grads Found Full-Time Law Jobs
