Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
51	U. of Mississippi	MS	$70,000	$53,000
52	U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities	MN	$112,111	$52,000
53	U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	$180,000	$60,210
54	U. of Miami	FL	$75,000	$45,000
55	U. of Memphis	TN	$62,500	$58,623
56	U. of Massachusetts	MA	$52,500	$47,000
57	U. of Maryland	MD	$70,000	$49,000
58	U. of Maine	ME	$52,442	$52,000
59	U. of Louisville (Brandeis)	KY	$60,000	$51,378
59	U. of Kentucky	KY	$61,000	$42,000
61	U. of Kansas	KS	$70,000	$56,000
62	U. of Iowa	IA	$98,038	$55,141
63	U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champ.	IL	$80,000	$65,000
64	U. of Idaho	ID	$65,000	$57,000
65	U. of Houston	TX	$90,000	$60,210
66	U. of Hawaii	HI	$85,000	$60,636
67	U. of Georgia	GA	$90,000	$50,000
68	U. of Florida (Levin)	FL	$75,000	$45,000
69	U. of Detroit Mercy	MI	$51,490	$55,000
70	U. of Denver	CO	$77,500	$56,676
71	U. of Dayton	OH	$64,000	$50,000
72	U. of Connecticut	CT	$85,000	$60,000
73	U. of Colorado-Boulder	CO	$90,000	$55,000
74	U. of Cincinnati	OH	$77,000	$54,000
75	U. of Chicago	IL	$180,000	$63,000
76	U. of California-Los Angeles	CA	$180,000	$55,053
76	U. of California-Irvine	CA	$170,000	$56,000
76	U. of California-Hastings	CA	$95,000	$54,000
76	U. of California-Davis	CA	$100,000	$48,000
76	U. of California-Berkeley	CA	$180,000	$60,000
81	U. of Baltimore	MD	$68,000	$47,000
82	U. of Arkansas-Little Rock	AR	$60,000	$60,000
82	U. of Arkansas-Fayetteville	AR	$58,000	$53,406
84	U. of Arizona (Rogers)	AZ	N/A	N/A
85	U. of Alabama	AL	$70,000	$50,000
86	U. of Akron	OH	$60,000	$42,198
87	U. at Buffalo	NY	$56,500	$52,000
88	Tulane University	LA	$105,000	$50,000
89	Touro College (Fuchsberg)	NY	$65,000	$58,000
90	Thomas Jefferson	CA	$53,860	$55,058
91	Texas Tech University	TX	$67,987	$49,664
91	Texas Southern University	TX	N/A	N/A
91	Texas A&M University	TX	$70,000	$63,500
94	Temple University (Beasley)	PA	$80,000	$52,000
95	Syracuse University	NY	$65,000	$50,750
96	Suffolk University	MA	$85,000	$61,200
97	Stetson University	FL	$70,000	$45,817
98	Stanford University	CA	$180,000	$65,228
99	St. Thomas University	FL	$52,000	$42,500
100	St. Mary's University	TX	$66,500	$55,000

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.