Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
100	U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities	MN	$112,111	$52,000
100	U. of St. Thomas	MN	$70,000	$52,500
100	Mitchell Hamline	MN	N/A	N/A
104	St. Louis University	MO	$70,000	$45,000
104	U. of Missouri-Columbia	MO	$60,000	$49,254
104	U. of Missouri-Kansas City	MO	$60,000	$45,185
104	Washington U. in St Louis	MO	$162,500	$57,000
108	Mississippi College	MS	$67,000	$45,000
108	U. of Mississippi	MS	$70,000	$53,000
110	U. of Montana	MT	$55,000	$51,000
111	Campbell University	NC	$50,000	$47,500
111	Charlotte School of Law	NC	N/A	N/A
111	Duke University	NC	$180,000	$60,000
111	Elon University	NC	$55,000	$49,778
111	North Carolina Central U.	NC	$50,000	$58,500
111	U. of N. Carolina-Chap. Hill	NC	$130,000	$51,500
111	Wake Forest University	NC	$75,000	$48,561
118	U. of North Dakota	ND	N/A	N/A
119	Creighton University	NE	$67,500	$60,000
119	U. of Nebraska-Lincoln	NE	$60,000	$52,297
121	U. of New Hampshire	NH	N/A	N/A
122	Rutgers Law School (SUNJ)	NJ	$100,000	$49,571
122	Seton Hall University	NJ	$115,000	$49,571
124	U. of New Mexico	NM	$65,000	$55,000
125	U. of Nevada-Las Vegas	NV	$80,000	$62,000
126	Albany Law School Union U.	NY	$73,000	$59,000
126	Brooklyn Law School	NY	$110,000	$60,000
126	Cardozo-Yeshiva University	NY	$70,000	$60,000
126	Columbia University	NY	$180,000	$60,000
126	Cornell University	NY	$180,000	$64,228
126	CUNY-Queens College	NY	$62,500	$54,583
126	Fordham University	NY	$180,000	$61,250
126	Hofstra University	NY	$70,000	$61,000
126	New York Law School	NY	$100,000	$61,000
126	New York University	NY	$180,000	$60,000
126	Pace University	NY	$72,500	$60,000
126	St. John's University	NY	$79,000	$62,500
126	U. at Buffalo	NY	$56,500	$52,000
126	Syracuse University	NY	$65,000	$50,750
126	Touro College (Fuchsberg)	NY	$65,000	$58,000
141	Capital University	OH	$62,500	$52,500
141	Case Western Reserve U.	OH	$63,000	$53,966
141	Cleveland State U. (Marshall)	OH	$70,000	$51,051
141	Ohio Northern University	OH	$55,000	$46,434
141	Ohio State University (Moritz)	OH	$78,000	$55,000
141	U. of Akron	OH	$60,000	$42,198
141	U. of Cincinnati	OH	$77,000	$54,000
141	U. of Dayton	OH	$64,000	$50,000
141	U. of Toledo	OH	$50,000	$49,875
150	Oklahoma City University	OK	$58,900	$45,000

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.