Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
135	U. of Arkansas-Little Rock	AR	$60,000	$60,000
152	U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	$180,000	$60,210
152	U. of Houston	TX	$90,000	$60,210
152	IIT Chicago-Kent	IL	$75,750	$60,210
155	Boston College	MA	$180,000	$60,223
156	U. of Wyoming	WY	$50,000	$60,451
157	Northwestern University	IL	$180,000	$60,518
158	U. of Hawaii	HI	$85,000	$60,636
159	New York Law School	NY	$100,000	$61,000
159	Hofstra University	NY	$70,000	$61,000
161	Baylor University	TX	$85,000	$61,105
162	Suffolk University	MA	$85,000	$61,200
163	U. of Pennsylvania	PA	$180,000	$61,218
164	Fordham University	NY	$180,000	$61,250
165	U. of Virginia	VA	$180,000	$62,000
165	Santa Clara University	CA	$100,000	$62,000
165	U. of Nevada-Las Vegas	NV	$80,000	$62,000
165	South Texas College of Law	TX	$72,500	$62,000
169	St. John's University	NY	$79,000	$62,500
170	Yale University	CT	$180,000	$62,591
171	U. of Chicago	IL	$180,000	$63,000
172	Texas A&M University	TX	$70,000	$63,500
173	Cornell University	NY	$180,000	$64,228
174	Pepperdine University	CA	$75,000	$64,500
175	U. of the Pacific (McGeorge)	CA	$75,500	$64,800
176	U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champ.	IL	$80,000	$65,000
177	Stanford University	CA	$180,000	$65,228
178	Vanderbilt University	TN	$180,000	$65,287
179	Loyola Law School	CA	$78,000	$65,900
180	California Western	CA	$67,500	$66,812
181	U. of San Francisco	CA	$80,000	$71,000
182	U. of San Diego	CA	$85,000	$72,000
183	U. of the District of Columbia	DC	$70,000	$78,500
184	Golden Gate University	CA	$82,000	$90,518
185	Lincoln Memorial U.	TN	$45,500	N/A
186	Appalachian School of Law	VA	N/A	N/A
187	Arizona Summit Law School	AZ	N/A	N/A
188	Atlanta's John Marshall Law	GA	N/A	N/A
189	Barry University	FL	N/A	N/A
190	Charlotte School of Law	NC	N/A	N/A
191	Indiana U.-Indianapolis	IN	N/A	N/A
192	Mitchell Hamline	MN	N/A	N/A
193	Southern University	LA	N/A	N/A
194	Texas Southern University	TX	N/A	N/A
195	U. of Arizona (Rogers)	AZ	N/A	N/A
196	U. of New Hampshire	NH	N/A	N/A
197	U. of North Dakota	ND	N/A	N/A
198	Valparaiso University	IN	N/A	N/A
199	Western Michigan (Cooley)	MI	N/A	N/A
200	Whittier Law School	CA	N/A	N/A

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.