Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
1	Golden Gate University	CA	$82,000	$90,518
2	U. of the District of Columbia	DC	$70,000	$78,500
3	U. of San Diego	CA	$85,000	$72,000
4	U. of San Francisco	CA	$80,000	$71,000
5	California Western	CA	$67,500	$66,812
6	Loyola Law School	CA	$78,000	$65,900
7	Vanderbilt University	TN	$180,000	$65,287
8	Stanford University	CA	$180,000	$65,228
9	U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champ.	IL	$80,000	$65,000
10	U. of the Pacific (McGeorge)	CA	$75,500	$64,800
11	Pepperdine University	CA	$75,000	$64,500
12	Cornell University	NY	$180,000	$64,228
13	Texas A&M University	TX	$70,000	$63,500
14	U. of Chicago	IL	$180,000	$63,000
15	Yale University	CT	$180,000	$62,591
16	St. John's University	NY	$79,000	$62,500
17	U. of Virginia	VA	$180,000	$62,000
17	Santa Clara University	CA	$100,000	$62,000
17	U. of Nevada-Las Vegas	NV	$80,000	$62,000
17	South Texas College of Law	TX	$72,500	$62,000
21	Fordham University	NY	$180,000	$61,250
22	U. of Pennsylvania	PA	$180,000	$61,218
23	Suffolk University	MA	$85,000	$61,200
24	Baylor University	TX	$85,000	$61,105
25	New York Law School	NY	$100,000	$61,000
25	Hofstra University	NY	$70,000	$61,000
27	U. of Hawaii	HI	$85,000	$60,636
28	Northwestern University	IL	$180,000	$60,518
29	U. of Wyoming	WY	$50,000	$60,451
30	Boston College	MA	$180,000	$60,223
31	U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	$180,000	$60,210
31	U. of Houston	TX	$90,000	$60,210
31	IIT Chicago-Kent	IL	$75,750	$60,210
34	Boston University	MA	$180,000	$60,000
34	Columbia University	NY	$180,000	$60,000
34	Duke University	NC	$180,000	$60,000
34	George Washington U.	DC	$180,000	$60,000
34	Harvard University	MA	$180,000	$60,000
34	New York University	NY	$180,000	$60,000
34	U. of California-Berkeley	CA	$180,000	$60,000
34	U. of Texas-Austin	TX	$180,000	$60,000
34	Brooklyn Law School	NY	$110,000	$60,000
34	George Mason U. (Scalia)	VA	$106,000	$60,000
34	U. of Connecticut	CT	$85,000	$60,000
34	Loyola U. Chicago	IL	$80,500	$60,000
34	New England Sch. of Law	MA	$75,000	$60,000
34	Pace University	NY	$72,500	$60,000
34	Cardozo-Yeshiva University	NY	$70,000	$60,000
34	Creighton University	NE	$67,500	$60,000
34	U. of Arkansas-Little Rock	AR	$60,000	$60,000

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.