Visualizing legal employment outcomes in Pennsylvania in 2017

This is the second in a series of visualizations on legal employment outcomes for the Class of 2017. Following a post on outcomes in Florida, here is a visualization for legal employment outcomes of graduates of Pennsylvania law schools for the Class of 2017. (More about the methodology is available at the Florida post.) Last year's Pennsylvania post is here.

Total graduates were essentially unchanged year-over-year, and the job picture improved slightly, from 82.2% placement in unfunded full-time, long-term bar passage-required and J.D.-advantage positions increased slightly once again, from 82.2% to 83.8%. Most schools are bunched together in the 78%-82% placement range.

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Peer Score	School	2017	YoY%	BPR	JDA	LSF	2016	BPR	JDA	LSF
4.4	University of Pennsylvania	98.8%	1.5	232	16	5	97.3%	230	17	4
2.7	Temple University	86.6%	3.5	172	15	1	83.2%	135	32	1
2.5	Villanova University	82.4%	0.4	120	11	0	82.0%	119	21	1
2.1	Drexel University	81.5%	-2.2	88	13	0	83.7%	111	12	0
1.8	Duquesne University	79.4%	5.2	80	20	0	74.2%	76	16	0
2.2	Pennsylvania State - Dickinson Law	78.7%	-9.5	41	7	0	88.2%	28	2	0
2.3	Penn State Law	78.1%	3.3	82	7	0	74.7%	63	8	0
2.7	University of Pittsburgh	77.5%	3.3	87	20	0	74.3%	108	22	0
1.7	Widener Commonwealth	67.2%	-0.7	36	5	0	67.9%	26	10	0