Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
41	U. of Miami	FL	$75,000	$45,000
52	Atlanta's John Marshall Law	GA	N/A	N/A
52	Emory University	GA	$115,000	$57,000
52	Georgia State University	GA	$80,000	$55,000
52	Mercer University (GA)	GA	$69,000	$50,500
52	U. of Georgia	GA	$90,000	$50,000
57	U. of Hawaii	HI	$85,000	$60,636
58	Drake University	IA	$61,500	$55,000
58	U. of Iowa	IA	$98,038	$55,141
60	U. of Idaho	ID	$65,000	$57,000
60	Concordia University	ID	$53,750	$57,000
62	DePaul University	IL	$68,000	$53,750
62	IIT Chicago-Kent	IL	$75,750	$60,210
62	John Marshall	IL	$60,000	$56,000
62	Loyola U. Chicago	IL	$80,500	$60,000
62	Northern Illinois University	IL	$50,000	$50,000
62	Northwestern University	IL	$180,000	$60,518
62	Southern Illinois U.	IL	$52,000	$43,750
62	U. of Chicago	IL	$180,000	$63,000
62	U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champ.	IL	$80,000	$65,000
71	Indiana U.-Bloomington	IN	$100,000	$47,018
71	Indiana U.-Indianapolis	IN	N/A	N/A
71	U. of Notre Dame	IN	$130,000	$56,275
71	Valparaiso University	IN	N/A	N/A
75	U. of Kansas	KS	$70,000	$56,000
75	Washburn University	KS	$60,000	$50,935
77	Northern Kentucky U.	KY	$65,000	$43,000
77	U. of Kentucky	KY	$61,000	$42,000
77	U. of Louisville (Brandeis)	KY	$60,000	$51,378
80	Louisiana State-Baton Rouge	LA	$80,000	$49,500
80	Loyola U. New Orleans	LA	$95,000	$50,000
80	Southern University	LA	N/A	N/A
80	Tulane University	LA	$105,000	$50,000
84	Boston College	MA	$180,000	$60,223
84	Boston University	MA	$180,000	$60,000
84	Harvard University	MA	$180,000	$60,000
84	New England Sch. of Law	MA	$75,000	$60,000
84	Northeastern University	MA	$126,600	$58,623
84	Suffolk University	MA	$85,000	$61,200
84	Western New England	MA	$50,000	$55,205
84	U. of Massachusetts	MA	$52,500	$47,000
92	U. of Baltimore	MD	$68,000	$47,000
92	U. of Maryland	MD	$70,000	$49,000
94	U. of Maine	ME	$52,442	$52,000
95	Michigan State University	MI	$75,000	$54,000
95	U. of Detroit Mercy	MI	$51,490	$55,000
95	U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	$180,000	$60,210
95	Wayne State U.	MI	$84,000	$55,000
95	Western Michigan (Cooley)	MI	N/A	N/A
100	Hamline University	MN	$60,000	$54,516

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.