Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
98	Michigan State University	MI	$75,000	$54,000
98	U. of Oregon	OR	$75,000	$52,736
98	Wake Forest University	NC	$75,000	$48,561
98	U. of Florida (Levin)	FL	$75,000	$45,000
98	U. of Miami	FL	$75,000	$45,000
106	U. of the Pacific (McGeorge)	CA	$75,500	$64,800
107	IIT Chicago-Kent	IL	$75,750	$60,210
108	U. of Cincinnati	OH	$77,000	$54,000
109	U. of Denver	CO	$77,500	$56,676
110	Loyola Law School	CA	$78,000	$65,900
110	Ohio State University (Moritz)	OH	$78,000	$55,000
112	St. John's University	NY	$79,000	$62,500
113	U. of San Francisco	CA	$80,000	$71,000
113	U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champ.	IL	$80,000	$65,000
113	U. of Nevada-Las Vegas	NV	$80,000	$62,000
113	Georgia State University	GA	$80,000	$55,000
113	Temple University (Beasley)	PA	$80,000	$52,000
113	Penn State U. (University Park)	PA	$80,000	$51,106
113	Louisiana State-Baton Rouge	LA	$80,000	$49,500
113	Villanova University	PA	$80,000	$48,847
121	Loyola U. Chicago	IL	$80,500	$60,000
122	Golden Gate University	CA	$82,000	$90,518
122	Arizona State University	AZ	$82,000	$58,500
124	Wayne State U.	MI	$84,000	$55,000
124	U. of Utah (SJ Quinney)	UT	$84,000	$51,815
126	U. of San Diego	CA	$85,000	$72,000
126	Suffolk University	MA	$85,000	$61,200
126	Baylor University	TX	$85,000	$61,105
126	U. of Hawaii	HI	$85,000	$60,636
126	U. of Connecticut	CT	$85,000	$60,000
126	U. of Richmond	VA	$85,000	$54,000
126	Washington and Lee U.	VA	$85,000	$51,450
126	Drexel University (Kline)	PA	$85,000	$48,500
134	U. of Houston	TX	$90,000	$60,210
134	U. of Colorado-Boulder	CO	$90,000	$55,000
134	U. of Georgia	GA	$90,000	$50,000
137	U. of California-Hastings	CA	$95,000	$54,000
137	Belmont University	TN	$95,000	$52,000
137	Loyola U. New Orleans	LA	$95,000	$50,000
140	Catholic U. of America	DC	$97,335	$55,963
141	U. of Iowa	IA	$98,038	$55,141
142	Santa Clara University	CA	$100,000	$62,000
142	New York Law School	NY	$100,000	$61,000
142	U. of Washington	WA	$100,000	$59,000
142	Southern Methodist Univ.	TX	$100,000	$57,000
142	American University	DC	$100,000	$56,000
142	Rutgers Law School (SUNJ)	NJ	$100,000	$49,571
142	U. of California-Davis	CA	$100,000	$48,000
142	Indiana U.-Bloomington	IN	$100,000	$47,018
150	Brigham Young University	UT	$104,000	$40,000

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.