Top Law Schools

1. Yale – 90.7% (6)
2. Harvard – 90.9% (5)
2. Stanford – 93.2% (2)
4. Columbia – 93.2% (2)
4. Chicago – 90.6% (7)
6. NYU – 93.1% (4)
7. U. Penn. – 83.6% (8)
7. UVA – 97.3% (1)
9. Berkeley – 72.6% (11)
10. Michigan – 70.7% (12)
11. Duke – 72.9% (10)
12. Northwestern – 77.4% (9)
13. Cornell – 69.7% (13)
14. Georgetown – 63.7% (14)

Thoughts, comments? Pretty large gap between 1 and 14, or 1 and 9 for that matter, or 6 and 9 even.

Initially on seeing this I thought it was a bit rosy, because I was assuming most people who ended up employed by their own law school would not have the job at graduation. If that's true (which I have 0 hard evidence to support), then employment rates for 1-6 really aren't insufferable.

ETA: rank by emp. at grad.

Source:
http://abovethelaw.com/2013/03/who-has- ... w-schools/

Isn't this just from the c/o 2011 data? Nothing new....

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ChampagnePapi wrote:Isn't this just from the c/o 2011 data? Nothing new....

It's from the data released to usnwr for the 2014 rankings.

Regulus wrote:

ChampagnePapi wrote:Isn't this just from the c/o 2011 data? Nothing new....

It is from the most recent USNWR rankings, which are pulling from the 2011 ABA data I think... but I don't know if we've had access to the "at graduation" numbers before. It isn't in the ABA's Employment Summary Report, at least.

ABA does not collect these data; neither does NALP. Schools had to scramble to get accurate numbers. I'd take them with a grain of salt.

jenesaislaw wrote:

Regulus wrote:

ChampagnePapi wrote:Isn't this just from the c/o 2011 data? Nothing new....

It is from the most recent USNWR rankings, which are pulling from the 2011 ABA data I think... but I don't know if we've had access to the "at graduation" numbers before. It isn't in the ABA's Employment Summary Report, at least.

ABA does not collect these data; neither does NALP. Schools had to scramble to get accurate numbers. I'd take them with a grain of salt.

But maybe a smaller grain of salt than before. When I was applying to law school every school including TTTs reported 85% employment or higher. These numbers, though not entirely accurate, are definitely much closer to reality.

That UVA number is a giant fucking wart on the notion that these have any relation to reality.