With recent data published by the Department of Education, Law School Transparency compiled and analyzed law school graduates' median law school debt and their median earnings in the year after graduation. Below, we have listed each law school ranked by highest to lowest earnings to debt ratio.
Note that the data reflects 2015 and 2016 law school graduates, and only those who borrowed money to attend law school. Four schools (Faulkner, Indiana Tech, UDC, and Vermont Law School) did not have data reported by the Department of Education and thus are not included in this list.
1 Stanford University
2 Harvard University
3 Duke University
4 University of Pennsylvania
5 University of Chicago
6 Cornell University
7 Northwestern University
8 Brigham Young University
9 Columbia University
10 Yale University
11 University of Iowa
12 University of Connecticut
13 Washington University in St Louis
14 University of Virginia
15 New York University
16 University of Wisconsin
17 Georgia State University
18 University of California - Berkeley
19 Temple University
20 Boston College
21 University of Michigan
22 Wayne State University
23 University of Tennessee
24 University of Nebraska
25 Texas Tech University
26 University of Texas
27 Vanderbilt University
28 University of Arkansas - Fayetteville
29 Mitchell Hamline School of Law
30 University of California - Los Angeles
31 University of North Dakota
32 University of Kansas
33 University of Kentucky
34 University of Mississippi
35 University of Alabama
36 University of Illinois
37 University of Houston
38 Boston University
39 Baylor University
40 University of Utah
41 University of Hawaii
42 University of Oklahoma
43 Louisiana State University
44 CUNY
45 University of Nevada - Las Vegas
46 University of Georgia
47 University of Missouri - Columbia
48 University of Southern California
49 Villanova University
50 University of Tulsa
51 University of Florida
52 University of California - Davis
53 Quinnipiac University
54 Washington and Lee University
55 Fordham University
56 University of Arizona
57 University of Montana
58 University of Cincinnati
59 Indiana University - Bloomington
60 Rutgers University
61 Georgetown University
62 University of South Dakota
63 University of Wyoming
64 West Virginia University
65 University of Arkansas - Little Rock
66 William and Mary
67 Case Western Reserve University
68 University of Memphis
69 Arizona State University
70 Duquesne University
71 Ohio State University
72 University of Puerto Rico
73 Cardozo-Yeshiva University
74 Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
75 Washburn University
76 University of New Mexico
77 Pace University
78 University of St. Thomas - Minneapolis
79 St. John's University
80 George Mason University
81 Northern Kentucky University
82 Concordia University School of Law
83 Florida State University
84 University of Notre Dame
85 University of Washington
86 SUNY Buffalo
87 University of California - Irvine
88 University of Akron
89 Michigan State University
90 University of Oregon
91 Drexel University
92 University of Idaho
93 Chicago-Kent College of Law
94 Southern Methodist University
95 University of Colorado
96 Brooklyn Law School
97 University of Richmond
98 Northern Illinois University
99 Syracuse University
100 University of Minnesota
101 University of North Carolina
102 Emory University
103 Liberty University
104 University of Toledo
105 Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law
106 Pennsylvania State University - Penn State Law
107 University of Missouri - Kansas City
108 Indiana University - Indianapolis
109 University of California - Hastings
110 St. Louis University
111 Albany Law School
112 Wake Forest University
113 University of Baltimore
114 Northeastern University
115 University of South Carolina
116 University of Maryland
117 University of Pittsburgh
118 Florida International University
119 University of San Diego
120 Tulane University
121 Gonzaga University
122 New England School of Law
123 Southern Illinois University
124 Loyola University Chicago
125 George Washington University
126 St. Mary's University
127 University of Louisville
128 Texas A&M
129 Drake University
130 Loyola Marymount University
131 Seton Hall University
132 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
133 South Texas College of Law Houston
134 Belmont University
135 Santa Clara University
136 Catholic University of America
137 Suffolk University
138 North Carolina Central University
139 Ohio Northern University
140 DePaul University
141 Southern University Law Center
142 Chapman University
143 Roger Williams University
144 University of Denver
145 Regent University
146 Pepperdine University
147 Florida A&M University
148 Hofstra University
149 Touro College
150 Lewis and Clark College
151 Widener University
152 Stetson University
153 Creighton University
154 Western New England University School of Law
155 New York Law School
156 Capital University
157 University of Dayton
158 Western State University
159 University of Miami
160 Marquette University
161 Seattle University
162 Howard University
163 University of the Pacific
164 Samford University
165 Mississippi College
166 Mercer University
167 Oklahoma City University
168 Nova Southeastern University
169 California Western School of Law
170 Loyola University New Orleans
171 Texas Southern University
172 American University
173 University of Detroit Mercy
174 University of Illinois at Chicago - John Marshall Law School
175 Campbell University
176 Willamette University
177 Lincoln Memorial University
178 Charleston School of Law
179 University of San Francisco
180 Appalachian School of Law
181 Valparaiso University
182 University of La Verne
183 St. Thomas University - Florida
184 Inter American University
185 Ave Maria School of Law
186 Arizona Summit Law School
187 Elon Law School
188 Golden Gate University
189 Southwestern Law School
190 Thomas M Cooley Law School
191 John Marshall Law School - Atlanta
192 Barry University
193 Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico
194 Charlotte School of Law
195 Thomas Jefferson School of Law
196 Whittier Law School
197 Florida Coastal School of Law
Note: a previous version of this blog included data compiled by Forbes, which we were later informed had several inconsistencies. Thus we have removed that list and replaced it with the above list based on the more complete, accurate data as compiled by Law School Transparency.
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