Thursday, April 16, 2020
Law School Rankings By Debt-To-Income Ratios Of Graduates
What Law Grads Earn, Nat'l Jurist, Spr. 2020, at 16:
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Education has unveiled median salaries earned by first-year graduates [in the Class of 2016].
Here are the Top 50 law schools with the lowest average debt-to-income ratios of their graduates with federal student loan debt:
Rank | School | Ratio |
1 | Stanford | 0.77 |
2 | Harvard | 0.84 |
3 | Duke | 0.85 |
4 | Chicago | 0.86 |
4 | Penn | 0.86 |
6 | Cornell | 0.88 |
7 | BYU | 0.91 |
7 | Northwestern | 0.91 |
9 | Columbia | 0.92 |
10 | Yale | 0.98 |
11 | Iowa | 0.99 |
12 | Connecticut | 1.01 |
13 | Washington University | 1.02 |
14 | NYU | 1.05 |
14 | Virginia | 1.05 |
16 | Wisconsin | 1.10 |
17 | Georgia State | 1.11 |
18 | UC-Berkeley | 1.12 |
19 | Boston College | 1.14 |
19 | Michigan | 1.14 |
19 | Temple | 1.14 |
22 | Nebraska | 1.16 |
22 | Tennessee | 1.16 |
22 | Texas Tech | 1.16 |
22 | Wayne State | 1.16 |
26 | Texas | 1.18 |
27 | Arkansas-Fayetteville | 1.19 |
27 | Vanderbilt | 1.19 |
29 | Mitchell Hamline | 1.21 |
30 | North Dakota | 1.26 |
30 | UCLA | 1.26 |
32 | Kansas | 1.27 |
33 | Kentucky | 1.28 |
34 | Mississippi | 1.32 |
35 | Alabama | 1.33 |
36 | Illinois | 1.34 |
37 | Houston | 1.36 |
38 | Baylor | 1.37 |
38 | Boston University | 1.37 |
40 | Utah | 1.38 |
41 | Hawaii | 1.39 |
41 | Oklahoma | 1.39 |
43 | Louisiana State | 1.41 |
44 | CUNY | 1.43 |
44 | Georgia | 1.43 |
44 | UNLV | 1.43 |
47 | Missouri | 1.45 |
47 | USC | 1.45 |
49 | Villanova | 1.47 |
50 | Tulsa | 1.48 |
- Law School Rankings By Salary Of Graduates
- Law School Rankings By Debt Of Graduates
- Law School Rankings By Debt-To-Income Ratios Of Graduates
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/04/law-school-rankings-by-debt-to-income-ratios-of-graduates.html
This is a much more meaningful measure than raw income levels because it's scaled. Very interesting output and one of the more relevant rankings I've seen for law schools.
Posted by: Anon | Apr 18, 2020 2:53:30 PM