2013 Law School Employment By Quartile – Moody’s Methodology

Using Moody's methodology of calculating law school employment percentages for 2013, set out here, this is the first quartile of schools.  For efficiency, I copied the name as used by the ABA, and ran out the portion employed per Excel's default. (The list is after the jump…)

 

SCHOOL NAME

PORTION EMPLOYED

VIRGINIA, UNIVERSITY OF

0.975274725

PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

0.972972973

CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF

0.972093023

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

0.970251716

EMORY UNIVERSITY

0.969178082

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

0.958477509

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

0.95716946

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

0.946078431

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

0.943661972

MINNESOTA, UNIVERSITY OF

0.934306569

DUKE UNIVERSITY

0.933609959

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

0.932989691

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

0.927184466

CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY, UNIVERSITY OF

0.920265781

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

0.913764511

CORNELL UNIVERSITY

0.911917098

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

0.911627907

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

0.911111111

CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES, UNIVERSITY OF

0.909638554

IOWA, UNIVERSITY OF

0.905263158

YALE UNIVERSITY

0.896551724

MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY OF

0.892230576

TEXAS AT AUSTIN, UNIVERSITY OF

0.888888889

COLORADO, UNIVERSITY OF

0.886363636

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

0.88627451

ALABAMA, UNIVERSITY OF

0.885542169

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY

0.884353741

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

0.877637131

NEW MEXICO, UNIVERSITY OF

0.877192982

UTAH, UNIVERSITY OF

0.875862069

WILLIAM AND MARY LAW SCHOOL

0.875576037

WASHINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF

0.87431694

CALIFORNIA-DAVIS, UNIVERSITY OF

0.87244898

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

0.870445344

TENNESSEE, UNIVERSITY OF

0.868263473

KENTUCKY, UNIVERSITY OF

0.864661654

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

0.863333333

INDIANA UNIVERSITY – BLOOMINGTON

0.862831858

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

0.862068966

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

0.85971223

SOUTH DAKOTA, UNIVERSITY OF

0.85915493

OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY

0.858823529

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

0.858627859

ILLINOIS, UNIVERSITY OF

0.857142857

MISSOURI, UNIVERSITY OF

0.854961832

WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY

0.853658537

OKLAHOMA, UNIVERSITY OF

0.85326087

KANSAS, UNIVERSITY OF

0.843930636

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

0.843373494

NOTRE DAME, UNIVERSITY OF

0.842391304

4 Comments

  1. Concerned_Citizen

    Thanks for taking the time to crunch (or have crunched) all the numbers.

    It seems that while showing aggregated quartiles per Moody's method provides a nice visual way to get the point across that outcomes vary considerably depending on which "chunk" you're looking at, once you begin looking at individual schools the "most everything goes into the pot" aspect of Moody's method really runs the hazard of being significantly misleading.

    Emory is a very good example of this – top 5 using this method as you demonstrate in your chart above. But as you also mention, this includes school-funded jobs.

    Emory has 67 grads in such jobs – nearly a quarter (23.7%) of what otherwise looks like a truly wonderful ~ 97% JD/JDA placement rate.

    What happens to those 67 school-funded jobs next year? Those actually at the school (library, CSO, other administrivial tasks) are certainly gone next year to make way for the next wave of unemployed graduates needing a position. To the extent that Emory's school-funded jobs may be funded jobs in industry/firms/other, perhaps those will turn into real jobs.

    But I don't know whether any, or if any, how many of Emory's school-funded jobs are jobs outside of the school itself.

  2. Former Editor

    I'll add that the Moody's methodology seems to also count putative solos, which is problematic for reasons that should be pretty obvious.

  3. Concerned_Citizen

    "seems to also count putative solos, which is problematic "

    Not so much in that first quartile, though! 🙂

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