2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Career Rating

I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2021 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
	Stanford	99
3	Duke	98
	Michigan	98
	Virginia	98
6	Chicago	97
	Columbia	97
	Harvard	97
	Northwestern	97
	Pennsylvania	97
	UC-Berkeley	97
12	Cornell	96
	Georgetown	96
	Texas	96
	USC	96
16	Boston College	95
	Boston Univ.	95
	Fordham	95
	UCLA	95
	Vanderbilt	95
21	Baylor	94
	Colorado	94
	Houston	94
	Minnesota	94
	Notre Dame	94
	UC-Davis	94
27	Cardozo	93
	Georgia	93
	Georgia State	93
	Marquette	93
	New Mexico	93
	Ohio Northern	93
	SMU	93
	William & Mary	93
	Wisconsin	93
	Yale	93
37	Chicago-Kent	92
	Connecticut	92
	CUNY	92
	Nebraska	92
	Oklahoma	92
	Temple	92
	Texas A&M	92
	Utah	92
	Univ. Washington	92
46	Arizona State	91
	Denver	91
	Emory	91
	Florida	91
	Iowa	91
	Montana	91
	San Diego	91
	Seton Hall	91
	Tulsa	91
	Wake Forest	91

2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings:

• Overall Ranking 
• Admissions Selectivity
• Academic Experience
• Professors (Teaching)
• Professors (Accessibility) 
• Professors (Teaching And Accessibility) 
• Career Rating