Visualizing legal employment outcomes in DC-Maryland-Virginia in 2014
Following up on my post regarding California employment outcomes, here are outcomes for law schools in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. (Details about the methodology, and the USNWR methodology basis, are there.) The chart is sorted by non-school-funded jobs (or "full-weight" positions). The table below the chart breaks down the raw data values for the Classes of 2013 and 2014, with relative overall changes, and is sorted by total placement (as USNWR prints). The raw data (and overall percentages) includes all full-time, long-term, bar passage-required and J.D.-advantage positions, with a parenthetical with the total number of school-funded positions.
Total jobs in these bar passage-required and J.D.-advantage positions declined slightly from 3207 to 3119, due in part, I would assume, from a significant decline in school-funded positions, from 357 to 271. But there were about 250 fewer graduates, from 4253 to 3992, which means that overall prospects improved for graduates: the overall employment rate was 78.1% (including all funded positions). More granular data is available at each school's website and forthcoming in spreadsheet format from the ABA.
| Peer score | School | 2014 | YoY% | raw | 2013 | raw | ||
| 4.3 | University of Virginia | 96.6% | -0.4 | 337 | (34) | 97.0% | 353 | (59) |
| 3.4 | George Washington University | 89.2% | 0.2 | 521 | (78) | 89.1% | 537 | (89) |
| 4.1 | Georgetown University | 87.2% | -2.5 | 546 | (72) | 89.8% | 579 | (80) |
| 3.2 | William and Mary Law School | 82.3% | -1.5 | 177 | (24) | 83.9% | 182 | (48) |
| 2.5 | University of Richmond | 81.9% | 10.0 | 122 | (0) | 71.8% | 102 | (0) |
| 2.7 | George Mason University | 79.9% | 5.4 | 147 | (7) | 74.5% | 190 | (7) |
| 2.9 | University of Maryland | 75.3% | 7.6 | 223 | (2) | 67.7% | 197 | (16) |
| 3.1 | Washington and Lee University | 74.8% | 11.2 | 95 | (1) | 63.6% | 91 | (0) |
| 2.1 | Catholic University of America | 70.9% | 2.5 | 127 | (0) | 68.5% | 163 | (0) |
| 2.0 | University of Baltimore | 70.4% | 5.8 | 221 | (0) | 64.6% | 201 | (0) |
| 2.8 | American University | 70.2% | 9.7 | 323 | (48) | 60.6% | 307 | (54) |
| 2.3 | Howard University | 65.5% | -0.5 | 74 | (1) | 65.9% | 91 | (1) |
| 1.3 | Regent University | 63.1% | -1.4 | 77 | (0) | 64.5% | 89 | (0) |
| 1.2 | Liberty University | 56.6% | 10.3 | 43 | (1) | 46.2% | 43 | (2) |
| 1.4 | District of Columbia | 44.7% | 3.4 | 46 | (2) | 41.3% | 33 | (1) |
| 1.2 | Appalachian School of Law | 42.1% | -13.6 | 40 | (1) | 55.7% | 49 | (0) |