Not all law school employment outcomes are created equal. The strongest outcome for graduates is employment in a full-time, long-term, bar admission required job. There are varying ways to measure employment outcomes, but three years ago, USNWR updated its employment outcomes metric . It made employment outcomes a whopping 33% of the total rankings. And it gave employment in full-time, long-term, bar admission required or JD advantage jobs funded by law schools “full weight” in its formula instead of a “discounted” weight. Likewise, it gave students enrolled in graduate school “full weight.” The trends of law schools with respect to these three discrete job categories offer a window into their rankings strategy—or perhaps merely an ill-timed correlation in outputs.Read More
Law school-funded jobs and graduate school received “full weight” by USNWR three years ago. How did law schools respond?
