Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
98	Mitchell Hamline	MN	N/A	N/A
102	Michigan State University	MI	$75,000	$54,000
102	U. of Detroit Mercy	MI	$51,490	$55,000
102	U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	$180,000	$60,210
102	Wayne State U.	MI	$84,000	$55,000
102	Western Michigan (Cooley)	MI	N/A	N/A
107	U. of Maine	ME	$52,442	$52,000
108	U. of Baltimore	MD	$68,000	$47,000
108	U. of Maryland	MD	$70,000	$49,000
110	Boston College	MA	$180,000	$60,223
110	Boston University	MA	$180,000	$60,000
110	Harvard University	MA	$180,000	$60,000
110	New England Sch. of Law	MA	$75,000	$60,000
110	Northeastern University	MA	$126,600	$58,623
110	Suffolk University	MA	$85,000	$61,200
110	Western New England	MA	$50,000	$55,205
110	U. of Massachusetts	MA	$52,500	$47,000
118	Louisiana State-Baton Rouge	LA	$80,000	$49,500
118	Loyola U. New Orleans	LA	$95,000	$50,000
118	Southern University	LA	N/A	N/A
118	Tulane University	LA	$105,000	$50,000
122	Northern Kentucky U.	KY	$65,000	$43,000
122	U. of Kentucky	KY	$61,000	$42,000
122	U. of Louisville (Brandeis)	KY	$60,000	$51,378
125	U. of Kansas	KS	$70,000	$56,000
125	Washburn University	KS	$60,000	$50,935
127	Indiana U.-Bloomington	IN	$100,000	$47,018
127	Indiana U.-Indianapolis	IN	N/A	N/A
127	U. of Notre Dame	IN	$130,000	$56,275
127	Valparaiso University	IN	N/A	N/A
131	DePaul University	IL	$68,000	$53,750
131	IIT Chicago-Kent	IL	$75,750	$60,210
131	John Marshall	IL	$60,000	$56,000
131	Loyola U. Chicago	IL	$80,500	$60,000
131	Northern Illinois University	IL	$50,000	$50,000
131	Northwestern University	IL	$180,000	$60,518
131	Southern Illinois U.	IL	$52,000	$43,750
131	U. of Chicago	IL	$180,000	$63,000
131	U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champ.	IL	$80,000	$65,000
140	U. of Idaho	ID	$65,000	$57,000
140	Concordia University	ID	$53,750	$57,000
142	Drake University	IA	$61,500	$55,000
142	U. of Iowa	IA	$98,038	$55,141
144	U. of Hawaii	HI	$85,000	$60,636
145	Atlanta's John Marshall Law	GA	N/A	N/A
145	Emory University	GA	$115,000	$57,000
145	Georgia State University	GA	$80,000	$55,000
145	Mercer University (GA)	GA	$69,000	$50,500
145	U. of Georgia	GA	$90,000	$50,000
150	Ave Maria School of Law	FL	$60,000	$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.