2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Career Rating

I previously blogged the lists of the Top 10 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2020 edition of the Princeton Review's Best Law Schools. In a series of posts this week, I will highlight the Top 50 schools in the five categories for which the Princeton Review provides individual law school data:

• Admissions Selectivity
• Academic Experience
• Professors: Teaching
• Professors: Accessibility
• Career Rating

Career Rating:  This rating measures the confidence students have in their school's ability to lead them to fruitful employment opportunities, as well as the school's own record of having done so. This rating takes into account both student survey responses and school-reported statistical data. We ask students about how much the law program encourages practical experience; the opportunities for externships, internships, and clerkships; and how prepared to practice law they expect to feel after graduating. We ask law schools for the median starting salaries of graduating students; the percentage employed in a job that requires bar passage (and not employed by the school); and the percentage of these students who pass the bar exam the first time they take it. This rating is on a scale of 60–99.

	Law School	Career Rating
1	NYU	99
	Virginia	99
3	Duke	98
	Harvard	98
	Stanford	98
6	Chicago	97
	Columbia	97
	Michigan	97
	Northwestern	97
	Pennsylvania	97
11	UC-Berkeley	96
12	Boston U.	95
	Cornell	95
	Georgetown	95
	USC	95
16	Boston College	94
	Texas	94
	Vanderbilt	94
19	Notre Dame	93
	Yale	93
21	Baylor	92
	Tulsa	92
23	Colorado	91
	Georgia State	91
	William & Mary	91
26	New Mexico	90
	Oklahoma	90
28	Cardozo	89
	Temple	89
	Wisconsin	89
31	Emory	88
	Georgia	88
	Marquette	88
	SMU	88
	UCLA	88
36	Minnesota	87
	U. Washington	87
	UC-Davis	87
	Utah	87
40	BYU	85
	CUNY	85
	Florida	85
	Houston	85
	Iowa	85
	Loyola-L.A.	85
	North Carolina	85
	Seton Hall	85
	Wake Forest	85
	Washington & Lee	85
50	Connecticut	84
	Denver	84
	Nebraska	84
	New Hampshire	84
	San Diego	84
	Southern Illinois	84
	St. John's	84