|
2015 Overall Ranking |
School | Bar Passage Rate | Bar Passage Ranking | Difference Between Overall Ranking and Bar Passage Ranking |
Enroll-ment |
Employed 9 Months After Graduation (Placement for Class of 2013) |
Place-ment Ranking |
|
1 |
Yale University |
94.4% |
19 |
18 |
625 |
91.4% |
8 |
|
2 |
Stanford University |
93.6% |
25 |
23 |
574 |
96.1% |
5 |
|
2 |
Harvard University |
97.0% |
5 |
3 |
1741 |
94.1% |
7 |
|
4 |
Columbia University |
95.3% |
15 |
11 |
1248 |
97.0% |
2 |
|
4 |
University of Chicago |
94.6% |
18 |
14 |
612 |
96.7% |
4 |
|
6 |
New York University |
94.8% |
16 |
10 |
1418 |
95.9% |
6 |
|
7 |
University of Pennsylvania |
93.2% |
30 |
23 |
786 |
97.0% |
2 |
|
8 |
University of Virginia |
96.1% |
10 |
2 |
1048 |
97.3% |
1 |
|
9 |
University of California-Berkeley |
87.2% |
59 |
50 |
854 |
88.1% |
10 |
|
10 |
Duke University |
95.6% |
13 |
3 |
629 |
87.1% |
11 |
|
10 |
University of Michigan |
93.8% |
24 |
14 |
1055 |
86.6% |
12 |
|
12 |
Northwestern University |
96.1% |
10 |
-2 |
763 |
85.8% |
14 |
|
13 |
Cornell University |
91.6% |
36 |
23 |
576 |
85.8% |
14 |
|
13 |
Georgetown University |
90.0% |
44 |
31 |
1695 |
84.3% |
18 |
|
15 |
University of Texas-Austin |
92.3% |
32 |
17 |
1046 |
81.5% |
22 |
|
16 |
UCLA |
88.1% |
56 |
40 |
975 |
77.2% |
36 |
|
16 |
Vanderbilt University |
95.7% |
12 |
-4 |
566 |
74.5% |
48 |
|
18 |
Washington University (MO) |
94.2% |
21 |
3 |
687 |
75.0% |
45 |
|
19 |
Emory University |
96.6% |
7 |
-12 |
811 |
78.6% |
29 |
|
20 |
George Washington University |
90.3% |
43 |
23 |
1287 |
91.0% |
9 |
|
20 |
University of Minnesota |
99.3% |
3 |
-17 |
721 |
75.2% |
42 |
|
20 |
USC |
87.2% |
59 |
39 |
602 |
72.4% |
54 |
Source: Tipping the Scales analysis based on U.S. News & World Report 2015 law school ranking
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