Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
150	U. of Oklahoma	OK	$65,000	$51,000
150	U. of Tulsa	OK	$60,000	$52,300
153	Lewis & Clark (Northwestern)	OR	$62,400	$45,000
153	U. of Oregon	OR	$75,000	$52,736
153	Willamette University	OR	$60,000	$55,600
156	Drexel University (Kline)	PA	$85,000	$48,500
156	Duquesne University	PA	$60,000	$40,553
156	Penn State U. (Dickinson)	PA	$64,000	$50,500
156	Penn State U. (University Park)	PA	$80,000	$51,106
156	Temple University (Beasley)	PA	$80,000	$52,000
156	U. of Pennsylvania	PA	$180,000	$61,218
156	U. of Pittsburgh	PA	$70,000	$45,500
156	Villanova University	PA	$80,000	$48,847
156	Widener (Commonwealth)	PA	$69,000	$52,000
165	Roger Williams University	RI	$60,000	$55,040
166	Charleston School of Law	SC	$63,000	$51,000
166	U. of South Carolina	SC	$65,000	$47,639
168	U. of South Dakota	SD	$60,000	$47,543
169	U. of Memphis	TN	$62,500	$58,623
169	U. of Tennessee-Knoxville	TN	$63,750	$51,700
169	Vanderbilt University	TN	$180,000	$65,287
169	Belmont University	TN	$95,000	$52,000
169	Lincoln Memorial U.	TN	$45,500	N/A
174	Baylor University	TX	$85,000	$61,105
174	South Texas College of Law	TX	$72,500	$62,000
174	Southern Methodist Univ.	TX	$100,000	$57,000
174	St. Mary's University	TX	$66,500	$55,000
174	Texas A&M University	TX	$70,000	$63,500
174	Texas Southern University	TX	N/A	N/A
174	Texas Tech University	TX	$67,987	$49,664
174	U. of Houston	TX	$90,000	$60,210
174	U. of Texas-Austin	TX	$180,000	$60,000
183	Brigham Young University	UT	$104,000	$40,000
183	U. of Utah (SJ Quinney)	UT	$84,000	$51,815
185	Appalachian School of Law	VA	N/A	N/A
185	College of William and Mary	VA	$105,000	$56,748
185	George Mason U. (Scalia)	VA	$106,000	$60,000
185	Liberty University	VA	$51,000	$54,000
185	Regent University	VA	$55,000	$59,246
185	U. of Richmond	VA	$85,000	$54,000
185	U. of Virginia	VA	$180,000	$62,000
185	Washington and Lee U.	VA	$85,000	$51,450
193	Vermont Law School	VT	$62,400	$52,000
194	Gonzaga University	WA	$57,000	$51,400
194	Seattle University	WA	$73,750	$56,000
194	U. of Washington	WA	$100,000	$59,000
197	Marquette University	WI	$56,500	$50,000
197	U. of Wisconsin-Madison	WI	$71,000	$49,254
199	West Virginia U.	WV	$70,000	$55,000
200	U. of Wyoming	WY	$50,000	$60,451

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.