Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
151	U. of Missouri-Columbia	MO	$60,000	$49,254
151	U. of Missouri-Kansas City	MO	$60,000	$45,185
153	U. of Montana	MT	$55,000	$51,000
154	U. of N. Carolina-Chap. Hill	NC	$130,000	$51,500
155	U. of Nebraska-Lincoln	NE	$60,000	$52,297
156	U. of Nevada-Las Vegas	NV	$80,000	$62,000
157	U. of New Hampshire	NH	N/A	N/A
158	U. of New Mexico	NM	$65,000	$55,000
159	U. of North Dakota	ND	N/A	N/A
160	U. of Notre Dame	IN	$130,000	$56,275
161	U. of Oklahoma	OK	$65,000	$51,000
162	U. of Oregon	OR	$75,000	$52,736
163	U. of Pennsylvania	PA	$180,000	$61,218
163	U. of Pittsburgh	PA	$70,000	$45,500
165	U. of Richmond	VA	$85,000	$54,000
166	U. of San Diego	CA	$85,000	$72,000
166	U. of San Francisco	CA	$80,000	$71,000
168	U. of South Carolina	SC	$65,000	$47,639
169	U. of South Dakota	SD	$60,000	$47,543
170	U. of Southern California	CA	$180,000	$58,000
171	U. of St. Thomas	MN	$70,000	$52,500
172	U. of Tennessee-Knoxville	TN	$63,750	$51,700
173	U. of Texas-Austin	TX	$180,000	$60,000
174	U. of the District of Columbia	DC	$70,000	$78,500
175	U. of the Pacific (McGeorge)	CA	$75,500	$64,800
176	U. of Toledo	OH	$50,000	$49,875
177	U. of Tulsa	OK	$60,000	$52,300
178	U. of Utah (SJ Quinney)	UT	$84,000	$51,815
179	U. of Virginia	VA	$180,000	$62,000
180	U. of Washington	WA	$100,000	$59,000
181	U. of Wisconsin-Madison	WI	$71,000	$49,254
182	U. of Wyoming	WY	$50,000	$60,451
183	Valparaiso University	IN	N/A	N/A
184	Vanderbilt University	TN	$180,000	$65,287
185	Vermont Law School	VT	$62,400	$52,000
186	Villanova University	PA	$80,000	$48,847
187	Wake Forest University	NC	$75,000	$48,561
188	Washburn University	KS	$60,000	$50,935
189	Washington and Lee U.	VA	$85,000	$51,450
190	Washington U. in St Louis	MO	$162,500	$57,000
191	Wayne State U.	MI	$84,000	$55,000
192	West Virginia U.	WV	$70,000	$55,000
193	Western Michigan (Cooley)	MI	N/A	N/A
194	Western New England	MA	$50,000	$55,205
195	Western State University	CA	$72,500	$50,000
195	Whittier Law School	CA	N/A	N/A
197	Widener (Commonwealth)	PA	$69,000	$52,000
198	Widener (Delaware)	DE	$60,000	$50,000
199	Willamette University	OR	$60,000	$55,600
200	Yale University	CT	$180,000	$62,591

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.