Law School Rankings by Median Salary

No.	Law School	State	Median Salary Private	Median Salary Public
49	U. of Tulsa	OK	$60,000	$52,300
52	Capital University	OH	$62,500	$52,500
52	Case Western Reserve U.	OH	$63,000	$53,966
52	Cleveland State U. (Marshall)	OH	$70,000	$51,051
52	Ohio Northern University	OH	$55,000	$46,434
52	Ohio State University (Moritz)	OH	$78,000	$55,000
52	U. of Akron	OH	$60,000	$42,198
52	U. of Cincinnati	OH	$77,000	$54,000
52	U. of Dayton	OH	$64,000	$50,000
52	U. of Toledo	OH	$50,000	$49,875
61	Albany Law School Union U.	NY	$73,000	$59,000
61	Brooklyn Law School	NY	$110,000	$60,000
61	Cardozo-Yeshiva University	NY	$70,000	$60,000
61	Columbia University	NY	$180,000	$60,000
61	Cornell University	NY	$180,000	$64,228
61	CUNY-Queens College	NY	$62,500	$54,583
61	Fordham University	NY	$180,000	$61,250
61	Hofstra University	NY	$70,000	$61,000
61	New York Law School	NY	$100,000	$61,000
61	New York University	NY	$180,000	$60,000
61	Pace University	NY	$72,500	$60,000
61	St. John's University	NY	$79,000	$62,500
61	U. at Buffalo	NY	$56,500	$52,000
61	Syracuse University	NY	$65,000	$50,750
61	Touro College (Fuchsberg)	NY	$65,000	$58,000
76	U. of Nevada-Las Vegas	NV	$80,000	$62,000
77	U. of New Mexico	NM	$65,000	$55,000
78	Rutgers Law School (SUNJ)	NJ	$100,000	$49,571
78	Seton Hall University	NJ	$115,000	$49,571
80	U. of New Hampshire	NH	N/A	N/A
81	Creighton University	NE	$67,500	$60,000
81	U. of Nebraska-Lincoln	NE	$60,000	$52,297
83	U. of North Dakota	ND	N/A	N/A
84	Campbell University	NC	$50,000	$47,500
84	Charlotte School of Law	NC	N/A	N/A
84	Duke University	NC	$180,000	$60,000
84	Elon University	NC	$55,000	$49,778
84	North Carolina Central U.	NC	$50,000	$58,500
84	U. of N. Carolina-Chap. Hill	NC	$130,000	$51,500
84	Wake Forest University	NC	$75,000	$48,561
91	U. of Montana	MT	$55,000	$51,000
92	Mississippi College	MS	$67,000	$45,000
92	U. of Mississippi	MS	$70,000	$53,000
94	St. Louis University	MO	$70,000	$45,000
94	U. of Missouri-Columbia	MO	$60,000	$49,254
94	U. of Missouri-Kansas City	MO	$60,000	$45,185
94	Washington U. in St Louis	MO	$162,500	$57,000
98	Hamline University	MN	$60,000	$54,516
98	U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities	MN	$112,111	$52,000
98	U. of St. Thomas	MN	$70,000	$52,500

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.