Top Law Schools

I'm rounding the percentages, but feel free to persuade me otherwise. If you think my percentages below are incorrect then let me know. If you don't see a school here, it's because they came under 10%. If you want to see those schools, then I recommend finding their LST Report.

School: (biglaw* + fed clerk)/total class size [C/O 2014 stats] (difference)
UChi: 83% [76%] (+7)
CLS: 79% [79%] (0)
SLS: 78% [75%] (+3)
Penn: 77% [78%] (-1)
Duke: 75% [70%] (+5)
Yale: 72% [60%] (+12)
HLS: 71% [71%] (0)
UVA: 70% [68%] (+2)
NU: 69% [65%] (+4)
NYU: 67% [71%] (-4)
Cornell: 67% [74%] (-7)
Mich: 61% [54%] (+7)
UC Berk: 56% [62%] (-6)
Vandy: 47%
UCLA: 45%
GULC: 44% [48%] (-4)
UT: 42%
Boston C: 41%
Notre Dame: 40%
USC: 38%
GW: 35%
Fordham: 35%
Boston U: 35%
WUSTL: 34%
Emory: 30%
Illinois: 29%
UC Irvine- 28%
UNC: 27%
W&M: 25%
SMU: 24%
Minnesota: 24%
W&L: 23%
UC Hastings: 22%
Kentucky: 21%
Iowa: 21%
Ohio State: 21%
U of Washington: 20%
Georgia: 20%
Indiana: 19%
Tulane: 19%
Tennessee: 19%
Houston: 18%
WVU: 18%
Cardozo: 18%
Temple: 17%
San Diego: 17%
SLU: 16%
Davis: 16%
AmericanU: 15%
Villanova: 14%
Florida: 14%
Pitt: 14%
Arizona: 13%
Loyola-Chicago: 13%
University of Kansas: 13%
UConn: 13%
Wake Forest: 12%
Duquesne: 12%
Colorado: 12%
Albany: 12%
Chicago-Kent: 12%
South Carolina: 12%
Maryland: 11%
Pepperdine: 11%
Miami: 11%
ASU: 11%
FSU: 10%
Catholic U: 10%
Stetson: 10%
Richmond: 10%

*Firm size 101+ attorneys

T14 Employment Trend


Percentage and number of T14 graduates unemployed, in school-funded positions, deferred starting dates, and unknown employment status:
Yale-8.45% (18)
Harvard-6.28% (37)
Stanford-5.13% (10)
Columbia-8.72% (36)
Chicago-7.14% (14)
NYU-8.45% (41)
Penn-5.69% (14)
UVA-10.90% (40)
Berkeley-10.79% (30)
Michigan-9.6% (34)
Duke-5.77% (12)
Northwestern-10.07% (29)
Cornell-8.2% (15)
GeorgeTTTown-21.83% (148)

Tag.

So aside from 100% employment rate, what is considered a good rate?

Villanova has added 2015 employment numbers.

It's really convenient that a lot of deposit deadlines happen before these deadlines.. Would be nice to see how the employment trend continued more recently at different schools with more data.

zot1 wrote:So aside from 100% employment rate, what is considered a good rate?

I assume that including the fact that not every single person is going to be able to be contacted/tracked, a few go into business, a few go to get PhDs, some just become stay at home parents because they want to, as close to 90% is probably a "good rate"

And what point does it become a bad rate making the school a bad investment? 85%? 80%? 75%? 65%?

Hastings posting a 65% employment rate with salary. Honestly, no one should be counted as employed if they do not have a salary. That's just volunteer work, not employment.

Villanova has a similar rate. I know both schools are not top, but if this is a trend, it is not a very good one.

George Washington #s are up.

Today wrote:George Washington #s are up.

66% bar passage required. Yikes.

zot1 wrote:

Today wrote:George Washington #s are up.

66% bar passage required. Yikes.

Just last year their rate for bar passage required was 80%. However, they had over 70 school funded positions contributing to that rate compared to 25 for the class of '15.

zot1 wrote:

Today wrote:George Washington #s are up.

66% bar passage required. Yikes.

That is a pretty impressive drop, doubly so due to the reduced class size.

35.48% of GW's Class of 2015 is working at a firm with 100+ attorneys or clerking for a federal judge.

I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but I really hope 0Ls come and look at this thread before going to law school.

It is not too late to back out!

Fordham data is up. Looks about the same as last year.

Can y'all also post the actual employment rate?

Fordham: 68% bar passage required.

Where are you guys finding this info?

Biglaw1990 wrote:35.48% of GW's Class of 2015 is working at a firm with 100+ attorneys or clerking for a federal judge.

is that 35% of the total class or 35% of the people that are actually employed?

Where can I find this info?

I want to look up Wyoming, Liberty, and Montana.

Google "[law school name] employment statistics." Some schools have them updated and some don't.

Given that no 0Ls should be posting here, I'm a little concerned that people haven't done this before. It was one of the things I did as a prospective students when weighing my options.

I did look up Wyoming: 63%.

misterjames wrote:

Biglaw1990 wrote:35.48% of GW's Class of 2015 is working at a firm with 100+ attorneys or clerking for a federal judge.

is that 35% of the total class or 35% of the people that are actually employed?

Total class

35.37% of Fordham's Class of 2015 is working at a firm with 100+ attorneys or clerking for a federal judge.

80% of Stanford's Class of 2015 is working at a firm with 100+ attorneys or clerking for a federal judge