Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
95	West Virginia U.	WV	$70,000	$55,000
95	U. of Mississippi	MS	$70,000	$53,000
95	U. of St. Thomas	MN	$70,000	$52,500
95	Cleveland State U. (Marshall)	OH	$70,000	$51,051
95	U. of Alabama	AL	$70,000	$50,000
95	U. of Maryland	MD	$70,000	$49,000
95	Stetson University	FL	$70,000	$45,817
95	U. of Pittsburgh	PA	$70,000	$45,500
95	St. Louis University	MO	$70,000	$45,000
95	Southwestern Univ.	CA	$70,000	$40,000
111	Widener (Commonwealth)	PA	$69,000	$52,000
111	Mercer University (GA)	GA	$69,000	$50,500
113	DePaul University	IL	$68,000	$53,750
113	U. of Baltimore	MD	$68,000	$47,000
115	Texas Tech University	TX	$67,987	$49,664
116	California Western	CA	$67,500	$66,812
116	Creighton University	NE	$67,500	$60,000
116	Florida State University	FL	$67,500	$46,000
116	Florida International U.	FL	$67,500	$45,000
120	Mississippi College	MS	$67,000	$45,000
121	St. Mary's University	TX	$66,500	$55,000
122	Touro College (Fuchsberg)	NY	$65,000	$58,000
122	U. of Idaho	ID	$65,000	$57,000
122	U. of New Mexico	NM	$65,000	$55,000
122	U. of Oklahoma	OK	$65,000	$51,000
122	Syracuse University	NY	$65,000	$50,750
122	U. of South Carolina	SC	$65,000	$47,639
122	Samford U. (Cumberland)	AL	$65,000	$46,000
122	Northern Kentucky U.	KY	$65,000	$43,000
130	Penn State U. (Dickinson)	PA	$64,000	$50,500
130	U. of Dayton	OH	$64,000	$50,000
132	U. of Tennessee-Knoxville	TN	$63,750	$51,700
133	Case Western Reserve U.	OH	$63,000	$53,966
133	Charleston School of Law	SC	$63,000	$51,000
135	U. of Memphis	TN	$62,500	$58,623
135	CUNY-Queens College	NY	$62,500	$54,583
135	Capital University	OH	$62,500	$52,500
138	Vermont Law School	VT	$62,400	$52,000
138	Lewis & Clark (Northwestern)	OR	$62,400	$45,000
140	Drake University	IA	$61,500	$55,000
141	U. of Kentucky	KY	$61,000	$42,000
142	U. of Arkansas-Little Rock	AR	$60,000	$60,000
142	John Marshall	IL	$60,000	$56,000
142	Willamette University	OR	$60,000	$55,600
142	Roger Williams University	RI	$60,000	$55,040
142	Hamline University	MN	$60,000	$54,516
142	U. of Tulsa	OK	$60,000	$52,300
142	U. of Nebraska-Lincoln	NE	$60,000	$52,297
142	U. of Louisville (Brandeis)	KY	$60,000	$51,378
142	Washburn University	KS	$60,000	$50,935

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.