Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
1	Yale University	CT	$180,000	$62,591
2	Willamette University	OR	$60,000	$55,600
3	Widener (Delaware)	DE	$60,000	$50,000
4	Widener (Commonwealth)	PA	$69,000	$52,000
5	Whittier Law School	CA	N/A	N/A
5	Western State University	CA	$72,500	$50,000
7	Western New England	MA	$50,000	$55,205
8	Western Michigan (Cooley)	MI	N/A	N/A
9	West Virginia U.	WV	$70,000	$55,000
10	Wayne State U.	MI	$84,000	$55,000
11	Washington U. in St Louis	MO	$162,500	$57,000
12	Washington and Lee U.	VA	$85,000	$51,450
13	Washburn University	KS	$60,000	$50,935
14	Wake Forest University	NC	$75,000	$48,561
15	Villanova University	PA	$80,000	$48,847
16	Vermont Law School	VT	$62,400	$52,000
17	Vanderbilt University	TN	$180,000	$65,287
18	Valparaiso University	IN	N/A	N/A
19	U. of Wyoming	WY	$50,000	$60,451
20	U. of Wisconsin-Madison	WI	$71,000	$49,254
21	U. of Washington	WA	$100,000	$59,000
22	U. of Virginia	VA	$180,000	$62,000
23	U. of Utah (SJ Quinney)	UT	$84,000	$51,815
24	U. of Tulsa	OK	$60,000	$52,300
25	U. of Toledo	OH	$50,000	$49,875
26	U. of the Pacific (McGeorge)	CA	$75,500	$64,800
27	U. of the District of Columbia	DC	$70,000	$78,500
28	U. of Texas-Austin	TX	$180,000	$60,000
29	U. of Tennessee-Knoxville	TN	$63,750	$51,700
30	U. of St. Thomas	MN	$70,000	$52,500
31	U. of Southern California	CA	$180,000	$58,000
32	U. of South Dakota	SD	$60,000	$47,543
33	U. of South Carolina	SC	$65,000	$47,639
34	U. of San Francisco	CA	$80,000	$71,000
34	U. of San Diego	CA	$85,000	$72,000
36	U. of Richmond	VA	$85,000	$54,000
37	U. of Pittsburgh	PA	$70,000	$45,500
37	U. of Pennsylvania	PA	$180,000	$61,218
39	U. of Oregon	OR	$75,000	$52,736
40	U. of Oklahoma	OK	$65,000	$51,000
41	U. of Notre Dame	IN	$130,000	$56,275
42	U. of North Dakota	ND	N/A	N/A
43	U. of New Mexico	NM	$65,000	$55,000
44	U. of New Hampshire	NH	N/A	N/A
45	U. of Nevada-Las Vegas	NV	$80,000	$62,000
46	U. of Nebraska-Lincoln	NE	$60,000	$52,297
47	U. of N. Carolina-Chap. Hill	NC	$130,000	$51,500
48	U. of Montana	MT	$55,000	$51,000
49	U. of Missouri-Kansas City	MO	$60,000	$45,185
49	U. of Missouri-Columbia	MO	$60,000	$49,254

About the 2020 Law School Rankings by Median Salary

Published in spring 2019, the salary statistics in PublicLegal's 2020 Raw Data Law School Rankings by Median Salary report are those of full-time, long-term employed law graduates for the class of 2017 at the time of graduation and within ten months after graduation (approximately spring 2018), as self-reported by the graduates.

The salaries indicated under the heading “Median Salary Private” reflect those salaries of the 50^th percentile, among those graduates working in private practice as law firm associates. The salaries indicated under the heading “Median Salary Public” reflect those salaries of the 50^th percentile, among those graduates working in government jobs or judicial clerkships at the federal or state level.

In determining median salaries, jobs classified as “JD advantage” have been excluded (i.e., positions in which the employer requires a JD or considers it an advantage to hold such a degree, but in which admission to the bar is not required).

The rationale behind entitling this report as the “2020” report is that our 2020 Law School Rankings report and 2020 Law School Profiles are of considerable interest to prospective law school applicants who seek to enroll in classes commencing in fall 2020. At the time of our publication of this report in spring 2019, these employment statistics reflected the most current data available.

Source: The data have been compiled from a variety of sources, including from data released publicly by the law schools.