Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
101	St. Louis University	MO	$70,000	$45,000
102	St. John's University	NY	$79,000	$62,500
103	Southwestern Univ.	CA	$70,000	$40,000
104	Southern University	LA	N/A	N/A
105	Southern Methodist Univ.	TX	$100,000	$57,000
106	Southern Illinois U.	IL	$52,000	$43,750
107	South Texas College of Law	TX	$72,500	$62,000
108	Seton Hall University	NJ	$115,000	$49,571
109	Seattle University	WA	$73,750	$56,000
110	Santa Clara University	CA	$100,000	$62,000
111	Samford U. (Cumberland)	AL	$65,000	$46,000
112	Rutgers Law School (SUNJ)	NJ	$100,000	$49,571
113	Roger Williams University	RI	$60,000	$55,040
114	Regent University	VA	$55,000	$59,246
115	Quinnipiac University	CT	$70,000	$55,000
116	Pepperdine University	CA	$75,000	$64,500
117	Penn State U. (University Park)	PA	$80,000	$51,106
117	Penn State U. (Dickinson)	PA	$64,000	$50,500
119	Pace University	NY	$72,500	$60,000
120	Oklahoma City University	OK	$58,900	$45,000
121	Ohio State University (Moritz)	OH	$78,000	$55,000
121	Ohio Northern University	OH	$55,000	$46,434
123	Nova Southeastern U.	FL	$60,000	$42,000
124	Northwestern University	IL	$180,000	$60,518
125	Northern Kentucky U.	KY	$65,000	$43,000
126	Northern Illinois University	IL	$50,000	$50,000
127	Northeastern University	MA	$126,600	$58,623
128	North Carolina Central U.	NC	$50,000	$58,500
129	New York University	NY	$180,000	$60,000
129	New York Law School	NY	$100,000	$61,000
131	New England Sch. of Law	MA	$75,000	$60,000
132	Mitchell Hamline	MN	N/A	N/A
133	Mississippi College	MS	$67,000	$45,000
134	Michigan State University	MI	$75,000	$54,000
135	Mercer University (GA)	GA	$69,000	$50,500
136	Marquette University	WI	$56,500	$50,000
137	Loyola U. New Orleans	LA	$95,000	$50,000
138	Loyola U. Chicago	IL	$80,500	$60,000
139	Loyola Law School	CA	$78,000	$65,900
140	Louisiana State-Baton Rouge	LA	$80,000	$49,500
141	Lincoln Memorial U.	TN	$45,500	N/A
142	Liberty University	VA	$51,000	$54,000
143	Lewis & Clark (Northwestern)	OR	$62,400	$45,000
144	John Marshall	IL	$60,000	$56,000
145	Indiana U.-Indianapolis	IN	N/A	N/A
145	Indiana U.-Bloomington	IN	$100,000	$47,018
147	IIT Chicago-Kent	IL	$75,750	$60,210
148	Howard University	DC	$180,000	$58,972
149	Hofstra University	NY	$70,000	$61,000
150	Harvard University	MA	$180,000	$60,000

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.