Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
101	St. Mary's University	TX	$66,500	$55,000
102	St. Thomas University	FL	$52,000	$42,500
103	Stanford University	CA	$180,000	$65,228
104	Stetson University	FL	$70,000	$45,817
105	Suffolk University	MA	$85,000	$61,200
106	Syracuse University	NY	$65,000	$50,750
107	Temple University (Beasley)	PA	$80,000	$52,000
108	Texas A&M University	TX	$70,000	$63,500
108	Texas Southern University	TX	N/A	N/A
108	Texas Tech University	TX	$67,987	$49,664
111	Thomas Jefferson	CA	$53,860	$55,058
112	Touro College (Fuchsberg)	NY	$65,000	$58,000
113	Tulane University	LA	$105,000	$50,000
114	U. at Buffalo	NY	$56,500	$52,000
115	U. of Akron	OH	$60,000	$42,198
116	U. of Alabama	AL	$70,000	$50,000
117	U. of Arizona (Rogers)	AZ	N/A	N/A
118	U. of Arkansas-Fayetteville	AR	$58,000	$53,406
118	U. of Arkansas-Little Rock	AR	$60,000	$60,000
120	U. of Baltimore	MD	$68,000	$47,000
121	U. of California-Berkeley	CA	$180,000	$60,000
121	U. of California-Davis	CA	$100,000	$48,000
121	U. of California-Hastings	CA	$95,000	$54,000
121	U. of California-Irvine	CA	$170,000	$56,000
121	U. of California-Los Angeles	CA	$180,000	$55,053
126	U. of Chicago	IL	$180,000	$63,000
127	U. of Cincinnati	OH	$77,000	$54,000
128	U. of Colorado-Boulder	CO	$90,000	$55,000
129	U. of Connecticut	CT	$85,000	$60,000
130	U. of Dayton	OH	$64,000	$50,000
131	U. of Denver	CO	$77,500	$56,676
132	U. of Detroit Mercy	MI	$51,490	$55,000
133	U. of Florida (Levin)	FL	$75,000	$45,000
134	U. of Georgia	GA	$90,000	$50,000
135	U. of Hawaii	HI	$85,000	$60,636
136	U. of Houston	TX	$90,000	$60,210
137	U. of Idaho	ID	$65,000	$57,000
138	U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champ.	IL	$80,000	$65,000
139	U. of Iowa	IA	$98,038	$55,141
140	U. of Kansas	KS	$70,000	$56,000
141	U. of Kentucky	KY	$61,000	$42,000
141	U. of Louisville (Brandeis)	KY	$60,000	$51,378
143	U. of Maine	ME	$52,442	$52,000
144	U. of Maryland	MD	$70,000	$49,000
145	U. of Massachusetts	MA	$52,500	$47,000
146	U. of Memphis	TN	$62,500	$58,623
147	U. of Miami	FL	$75,000	$45,000
148	U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	$180,000	$60,210
149	U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities	MN	$112,111	$52,000
150	U. of Mississippi	MS	$70,000	$53,000

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.