Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
49	Capital University	OH	$62,500	$52,500
52	Case Western Reserve U.	OH	$63,000	$53,966
52	Charleston School of Law	SC	$63,000	$51,000
54	U. of Tennessee-Knoxville	TN	$63,750	$51,700
55	Penn State U. (Dickinson)	PA	$64,000	$50,500
55	U. of Dayton	OH	$64,000	$50,000
57	Touro College (Fuchsberg)	NY	$65,000	$58,000
57	U. of Idaho	ID	$65,000	$57,000
57	U. of New Mexico	NM	$65,000	$55,000
57	U. of Oklahoma	OK	$65,000	$51,000
57	Syracuse University	NY	$65,000	$50,750
57	U. of South Carolina	SC	$65,000	$47,639
57	Samford U. (Cumberland)	AL	$65,000	$46,000
57	Northern Kentucky U.	KY	$65,000	$43,000
65	St. Mary's University	TX	$66,500	$55,000
66	Mississippi College	MS	$67,000	$45,000
67	California Western	CA	$67,500	$66,812
67	Creighton University	NE	$67,500	$60,000
67	Florida State University	FL	$67,500	$46,000
67	Florida International U.	FL	$67,500	$45,000
71	Texas Tech University	TX	$67,987	$49,664
72	DePaul University	IL	$68,000	$53,750
72	U. of Baltimore	MD	$68,000	$47,000
74	Widener (Commonwealth)	PA	$69,000	$52,000
74	Mercer University (GA)	GA	$69,000	$50,500
76	U. of the District of Columbia	DC	$70,000	$78,500
76	Texas A&M University	TX	$70,000	$63,500
76	Hofstra University	NY	$70,000	$61,000
76	Cardozo-Yeshiva University	NY	$70,000	$60,000
76	U. of Kansas	KS	$70,000	$56,000
76	Quinnipiac University	CT	$70,000	$55,000
76	West Virginia U.	WV	$70,000	$55,000
76	U. of Mississippi	MS	$70,000	$53,000
76	U. of St. Thomas	MN	$70,000	$52,500
76	Cleveland State U. (Marshall)	OH	$70,000	$51,051
76	U. of Alabama	AL	$70,000	$50,000
76	U. of Maryland	MD	$70,000	$49,000
76	Stetson University	FL	$70,000	$45,817
76	U. of Pittsburgh	PA	$70,000	$45,500
76	St. Louis University	MO	$70,000	$45,000
76	Southwestern Univ.	CA	$70,000	$40,000
92	U. of Wisconsin-Madison	WI	$71,000	$49,254
93	South Texas College of Law	TX	$72,500	$62,000
93	Pace University	NY	$72,500	$60,000
93	Western State University	CA	$72,500	$50,000
96	Albany Law School Union U.	NY	$73,000	$59,000
97	Seattle University	WA	$73,750	$56,000
98	Pepperdine University	CA	$75,000	$64,500
98	New England Sch. of Law	MA	$75,000	$60,000
98	Chapman University	CA	$75,000	$59,250

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.