Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
151	Drexel University (Kline)	PA	$85,000	$48,500
151	Faulkner University (Jones)	AL	$48,000	$48,500
153	U. of California-Davis	CA	$100,000	$48,000
154	U. of South Carolina	SC	$65,000	$47,639
155	U. of South Dakota	SD	$60,000	$47,543
156	Campbell University	NC	$50,000	$47,500
157	Indiana U.-Bloomington	IN	$100,000	$47,018
158	U. of Baltimore	MD	$68,000	$47,000
158	U. of Massachusetts	MA	$52,500	$47,000
160	Ohio Northern University	OH	$55,000	$46,434
161	Florida State University	FL	$67,500	$46,000
161	Samford U. (Cumberland)	AL	$65,000	$46,000
163	Stetson University	FL	$70,000	$45,817
164	U. of Pittsburgh	PA	$70,000	$45,500
165	U. of Missouri-Kansas City	MO	$60,000	$45,185
166	U. of Florida (Levin)	FL	$75,000	$45,000
166	U. of Miami	FL	$75,000	$45,000
166	St. Louis University	MO	$70,000	$45,000
166	Florida International U.	FL	$67,500	$45,000
166	Mississippi College	MS	$67,000	$45,000
166	Lewis & Clark (Northwestern)	OR	$62,400	$45,000
166	Ave Maria School of Law	FL	$60,000	$45,000
166	Oklahoma City University	OK	$58,900	$45,000
174	Florida Coastal	FL	$50,000	$44,999
175	Southern Illinois U.	IL	$52,000	$43,750
176	Northern Kentucky U.	KY	$65,000	$43,000
177	St. Thomas University	FL	$52,000	$42,500
178	U. of Akron	OH	$60,000	$42,198
179	U. of Kentucky	KY	$61,000	$42,000
179	Nova Southeastern U.	FL	$60,000	$42,000
181	Florida A&M University	FL	$60,000	$41,700
182	Duquesne University	PA	$60,000	$40,553
183	Brigham Young University	UT	$104,000	$40,000
183	Southwestern Univ.	CA	$70,000	$40,000
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.