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For the first time ever, The Department of Education has released these figures (source). Disclaimer: This is just a sliver of data of average salaries that is not broken down at all. Please do not use to make any law school matriculation choice based on this data alone. For a great deal more data on every ABA-accredited law school to help you make your law school decision, check out My Rank.
Three caveats to this data:
(1) It only tracks students who took out student loans, not all students.
(2) It's based on 2016 data.
(3) Relatedly, any school that sends a lot of people to clerkships or PI is going to suffer in this kind of metric, so the students with the lowest clerkship+PI+Gov (NYU and Columbia) may look better, while schools with high clerkship+PI+Gov may look worse.
Mean Salaries Of First Year Law School Graduates
1. Columbia $180,300
2. NYU $175,800
3. Cornell $175,200
4. Penn $175,100
5. Northwestern $171,900
6. Chicago $170,500
7. Duke $162,200
8. Harvard $158,200
9. Stanford $156,700
10. Virginia $151,500
11. UC Berkeley $135,400
12. Yale $128,900
13. Michigan $126,800
14. Vanderbilt $108,800
15. Georgetown $105,000
16. Fordham $99,000
17. UCLA $96,600
18. Texas $90,100
19. USC $89,300
20. Boston College $88,300
21. Boston University $81,200
22. Washington University in St. Louis. $79,800
23. SMU $75,600
24. Notre Dame $75,500
25. George Washington $74,300
26. UC Irvine $68,700
27. Connecticut $68,600
28. Illinois $67,700
29. Houston $67,600
29. UC-Hastings $67,600
31. UC-Davis $67,100
32. George Mason $66,900
33. Baylor $66,800
33. Emory $66,800
35. Santa Clara $66,200
36. Brooklyn $66,100
37. Cardozo $66,000
38. St. John's $65,900
38. UNLV $65,900
40. Loyola-Chicago $64,400
41. Washington & Lee $64,200
42. Loyola-Los Angeles $63,700
43. Washington $63,000
44. Iowa $62,700
45. Georgia State $62,400
46. San-Diego $62,100
47. Pepperdine $61,400
48. Temple $61,300
49. Pace $60,700
50. Texas Tech $60,200
51. William and Mary $59,800
52. Chicago-Kent $59,300
52. New York Law School $59,300
54. Catholic University $58,900
55. University of Minnesota $58,700
56. Wayne State University $58,300
57. Ohio State University $58,100
58. University of Utah $57,800
59. University of Georgia $57,600
60. Chapman University $57,100
61. Syracuse University, $57,000
62. Villanova University $56,900
62. University of Florida $56,900
62. South Texas- Houston $56,900
65. Arizona State University $56,800
65. Tulane University $56,800
67. University of Colorado $56,600
68. Brigham Young University $56,200
68. University of Hawaii $56,200
70. University of Wisconsin $56,000
71. Touro Law Center $55,800
72. Wake Forest University $55,400
72. University of Maryland $55,400
74. University of North Carolina $55,300
74. American University $55,300
76. Seton Hall University $55,200
77. Indiana University- Bloomington $55,100
78. University of Denver $55,000
78. Hofstra University $55,000
80. CUNY School of Law $54,800
81. Concordia University $54,500
82. University of Kentucky $54,400
83. Quinnipiac University $54,300
84. Indiana University McKinney School of Law $54,100
85. Albany Law School $53,900
85. University of San Francisco $53,900
87. Texas A&M $53,800
88. University of Oklahoma $53,600
89. University of Richmond $53,500
90. Mitchell Hamline $53,200
91. Marquette University $53,100
92. University of Tennessee $53,000
92. Rutgers $53,000
92. McGeorge School of Law $53,000
95. University of Arizona $52,900
95. Suffolk University $52,900
97. University of Baltimore $52,800
97. Howard University $52,800
99. Seattle University $52,600
100. St. Louis University $52,200
100. Drake University $52,200
100. DePaul University $52,200
