Visualizing legal employment outcomes in Texas in 2015

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

As with some other jurisdictions, Texas employment outcomes worsened somewhat. There were 1272 full-time, long-term, bar passage-required jobs (excluded law school-funded positions) for the Class of 2015, down from 1378 for the Class of 2014. J.D.-advantage positions declined from 236 to 173. Despite a decline of about 150 graduates, to 2072 graduates, among the nine Texas schools, the overall employment rate stood at 69.7% (excluding school-funded positions), down a couple of points from last year.

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. (As an additional note, these are the ABA-reported figures; subsequent amended figures from schools are not included.)

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Peer Score	School	2015	YoY%	BPR	JDA	LSF	2014	BPR	JDA	LSF
2.4	Baylor University	88.0%	15.2	88	5	2	72.8%	92	6	1
4.0	University of Texas-Austin	84.5%	-2.1	268	20	11	86.6%	251	30	23
2.6	Southern Methodist University	83.7%	1.0	183	17	0	82.7%	177	33	0
2.6	University of Houston	78.2%	-5.4	129	42	1	83.6%	167	43	4
1.9	Texas Tech University	73.5%	1.6	138	17	0	71.8%	129	24	0
2.1	Texas A&M University	67.8%	4.0	137	17	0	63.8%	121	26	1
1.6	St. Mary's University	61.6%	-7.2	113	19	1	68.8%	129	21	0
1.6	South Texas College of Law	54.2%	-18.6	164	25	1	72.8%	241	43	0
1.4	Texas Southern University	42.9%	-3.1	52	11	0	46.0%	71	10	0