Visualizing legal employment outcomes in Ohio in 2015

This is the fourth in the series of visualizations of legal employment outcomes in 2015. The previous visualizations were for California, New York, and DC-Maryland-Virginia.

Ohio is notable for having nine ABA-accredited law schools. Class of 2015 graduates declined significantly, from 1297 for the Class of 2014 to 1089 last year. But job outcomes actually worsened significantly--there were just 594 bar passage-required jobs among these graduates, down from 699 the previous year. The percentage of graduates employed in bar passage-required and J.D-advantage job was 68.2% among these schools, worse than last year's 69.2% rate. (Law school-funded positions add a marginal number of positions.)

As usual, the chart is sorted by the "full-weight" positions, designating both full-time, long-term, bar passage-required and J.D.-advantage positions. There are additional designations for school-funded positions in these areas, and for all other outcomes. The table below the chart is sorted by the combined bar passage-required, J.D.-advantage, and law school-funded positions (as printed in U.S. News & World Reports), with raw figures and a year-over-year comparison beside.

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Peer Score	School	2015	YoY%	BPR	JDA	LSF	2014	BPR	JDA	LSF
3.3	Ohio State University	86.9%	-4.5	132	19	2	91.4%	155	32	5
2.4	University of Cincinnati	80.7%	-1.7	67	21	0	82.4%	79	24	0
2.6	Case Western Reserve University	70.8%	4.8	86	16	0	66.1%	91	19	1
1.8	University of Toledo	66.7%	7.3	48	21	1	59.3%	54	18	1
1.8	Cleveland State University	66.1%	-2.2	57	15	0	68.2%	74	29	0
1.7	University of Dayton	63.4%	-9.4	48	11	0	72.9%	74	28	0
1.8	University of Akron	63.4%	-8.8	73	17	0	72.2%	66	25	0
1.5	Capital University	54.1%	7.8	57	23	0	46.3%	62	12	0
1.5	Ohio Northern University	50.8%	-7.7	26	6	0	58.5%	44	11	0