Best Employment Outcomes Law Schools
ABA law schools with the strongest JD employment rates — firm, government, clerkship, and public interest placement.
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- Duke University School of Law
Durham, NC
LSAT 170GPA 3.8999.3% emp$154,200 - Cornell Law School
Ithaca, NY
LSAT 173GPA 3.8999.0% emp$162,612 - University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Philadelphia, PA
LSAT 172GPA 3.9399.7% emp$149,376 - University of Virginia School of Law
Charlottesville, VA · #11
LSAT 172GPA 3.9698.7% emp$146,656 - Columbia University School of Law
New York, NY
LSAT 173GPA 3.9098.5% emp$163,776 - Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Chicago, IL
LSAT 172GPA 3.9598.1% emp$153,408 - The University of Chicago Law School
Chicago, IL · #6
LSAT 173GPA 3.9499.0% emp$159,078 - LSAT 170GPA 3.8799.0% emp$144,518
- New York University School of Law
New York, NY · #8
LSAT 172GPA 3.9198.3% emp$159,908 - Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA · #1
LSAT 174GPA 3.9596.6% emp$154,200 - The University of Michigan Law School
Ann Arbor, MI · #13
LSAT 171GPA 3.8697.2% emp$151,104 - Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, DC · #12
LSAT 171GPA 3.9297.0% emp$159,344 - University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
Los Angeles, CA · #22
LSAT 169GPA 3.9197.7% emp$160,368 - Notre Dame Law School
Notre Dame, IN · #19
LSAT 169GPA 3.8598.9% emp$141,212 - Vanderbilt Law School
Nashville, TN · #23
LSAT 169GPA 3.8998.2% emp$146,296 - University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law
Los Angeles, CA
LSAT 170GPA 3.9597.3% emp$137,526 - The University of Texas School of Law
Austin, TX · #14
LSAT 171GPA 3.8998.1% emp$113,644 - Washington University School of Law
St. Louis, MO · #7
LSAT 173GPA 3.9698.6% emp$140,016 - Boston College Law School
Newton, MA · #28
LSAT 167GPA 3.8097.7% emp$139,200 - Stanford University Law School
Stanford, CA · #5
LSAT 173GPA 3.9296.0% emp$148,950 - Yale Law School
New Haven, CT · #2
LSAT 174GPA 3.9695.3% emp$148,088 - University of Illinois College of Law
Champaign, IL · #40
LSAT 165GPA 3.7799.0% emp$93,000 - Fordham University School of Law
New York, NY
LSAT 167GPA 3.7695.2% emp$149,216 - Boston University School of Law
Boston, MA · #15
LSAT 170GPA 3.8896.3% emp$133,340 - The George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC
LSAT 168GPA 3.8797.3% emp$145,040 - Howard University School of Law
Washington, DC · #124
LSAT 155GPA 3.4791.2% emp$74,992 - University of North Carolina School of Law
Chapel Hill, NC
LSAT 167GPA 3.8597.6% emp$96,244 - University of Minnesota Law School
Minneapolis, MN
LSAT 169GPA 3.8897.4% emp$116,688 - LSAT 168GPA 3.9297.2% emp$62,112
- Seton Hall University School of Law
Newark, NJ
LSAT 160GPA 3.6995.2% emp$134,600
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