Law Student Debt Grew $475 Million in 2008-2010

American Lawyer, Law School Debt Bubble: Aggregate Law School Grad Debt Grew $475 Million Between 2008 and 2010:

Year	Ave. Law Grad Debt	Ave. Law School Debt-Revenue	Mean Deviation	Total Law School Debt-Revenue
2008	$87,761	$16.1m	$8.3m	$3,147.1m
2009	$91,606	$17.2m	$8.8m	$3,371.4m
2010	$97,310	$18.5m	$9.5m	$3,620.8m
Growth Rate	+10.9% (+$9,549)	+14.9% (+$2.4m)	N/A	+15.1% (+$473.7m)

 

#	Public School	2010 Grad Debt-Revenue	Z-Score
1	UC-Hastings	35.6m	4.02
2	Michigan	35.4m	3.99
3	Virginia	34.6m	3.84
4	Indiana-Indianapolis	31.5m	3.32
5	UCLA	28.2m	2.75
6	Baltimore	26.3m	2.43
7	Texas	24.0m	2.04
8	UC-Berkeley	22.8m	1.83
9	Temple	20.9m	1.50
10	Indiana-Bloomington	20.7m	1.47
11	Minnesota	20.5m	1.43
12	Penn State	19.6m	1.29
13	Maryland	19.0m	1.19
14	George Mason	18.8m	1.16
15	Florida	18.8m	1.15
16	Rutgers-Newark	17.5m	0.92
17	Wisconsin	16.7m	0.79
18	Oregon	15.5m	0.59
19	N. Carolina Central	15.4m	0.58
20	Houston	15.3m	0.56

 

#	Private School	2010 Grad Debt-Revenue	Z-Score
1	Cooley	87.6m	6.33
2	Georgetown	67.9m	4.41
3	Harvard	58.2m	3.46
4	American	53.5m	3.00
5	New York University	49.6m	2.62
6	New York Law School	48.6m	2.52
7	Florida Coastal	47.4m	2.41
8	Suffolk	47.0m	2.36
9	George Washington	44.9m	2.16
10	Loyola-L.A.	43.8m	2.05
11	Fordham	43.7m	2.04
12	Columbia	42.2m	1.90
13	Brooklyn	38.0m	1.48
14	McGeorge	36.6m	1.35
15	Stetson	36.2m	1.30
16	Miami	35.9m	1.27
17	John Marshall	35.8m	1.27
18	South Texas	35.7m	1.26
19	Catholic	34.6m	1.15
20	Cardozo	34.4m	1.13