Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
50	U. of Colorado-Boulder	CO	$90,000	$55,000
50	U. of Georgia	GA	$90,000	$50,000
53	U. of San Diego	CA	$85,000	$72,000
53	Suffolk University	MA	$85,000	$61,200
53	Baylor University	TX	$85,000	$61,105
53	U. of Hawaii	HI	$85,000	$60,636
53	U. of Connecticut	CT	$85,000	$60,000
53	U. of Richmond	VA	$85,000	$54,000
53	Washington and Lee U.	VA	$85,000	$51,450
53	Drexel University (Kline)	PA	$85,000	$48,500
61	Wayne State U.	MI	$84,000	$55,000
61	U. of Utah (SJ Quinney)	UT	$84,000	$51,815
63	Golden Gate University	CA	$82,000	$90,518
63	Arizona State University	AZ	$82,000	$58,500
65	Loyola U. Chicago	IL	$80,500	$60,000
66	U. of San Francisco	CA	$80,000	$71,000
66	U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champ.	IL	$80,000	$65,000
66	U. of Nevada-Las Vegas	NV	$80,000	$62,000
66	Georgia State University	GA	$80,000	$55,000
66	Temple University (Beasley)	PA	$80,000	$52,000
66	Penn State U. (University Park)	PA	$80,000	$51,106
66	Louisiana State-Baton Rouge	LA	$80,000	$49,500
66	Villanova University	PA	$80,000	$48,847
74	St. John's University	NY	$79,000	$62,500
75	Loyola Law School	CA	$78,000	$65,900
75	Ohio State University (Moritz)	OH	$78,000	$55,000
77	U. of Denver	CO	$77,500	$56,676
78	U. of Cincinnati	OH	$77,000	$54,000
79	IIT Chicago-Kent	IL	$75,750	$60,210
80	U. of the Pacific (McGeorge)	CA	$75,500	$64,800
81	Pepperdine University	CA	$75,000	$64,500
81	New England Sch. of Law	MA	$75,000	$60,000
81	Chapman University	CA	$75,000	$59,250
81	Michigan State University	MI	$75,000	$54,000
81	U. of Oregon	OR	$75,000	$52,736
81	Wake Forest University	NC	$75,000	$48,561
81	U. of Florida (Levin)	FL	$75,000	$45,000
81	U. of Miami	FL	$75,000	$45,000
89	Seattle University	WA	$73,750	$56,000
90	Albany Law School Union U.	NY	$73,000	$59,000
91	South Texas College of Law	TX	$72,500	$62,000
91	Pace University	NY	$72,500	$60,000
91	Western State University	CA	$72,500	$50,000
94	U. of Wisconsin-Madison	WI	$71,000	$49,254
95	U. of the District of Columbia	DC	$70,000	$78,500
95	Texas A&M University	TX	$70,000	$63,500
95	Hofstra University	NY	$70,000	$61,000
95	Cardozo-Yeshiva University	NY	$70,000	$60,000
95	U. of Kansas	KS	$70,000	$56,000
95	Quinnipiac University	CT	$70,000	$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.