Visualizing legal employment outcomes in Texas in 2017
This is the third in a series of visualizations on legal employment outcomes for the Class of 2017. Following posts on outcomes in Florida and Pennsylvania here is a visualization for legal employment outcomes of graduates of Texas law schools for the Class of 2017. (More about the methodology is available at the Florida post.) Last year's Texas post is here.
Total jobs in these unfunded bar passage-required and J.D.-advantage positions worsened slightly, from 1551 in 2016 to 1476 in 2017. Despite the addition of the University of North Texas Dallas, overall graduates dropped below 2000 statewide, and the placement rate improved from 74.1% to 75.8% (including a few funded positions). Note that the chart below visualizes Baylor at the top because it exclude school-funded positions; in the table below that UT-Austin is at the top. (Refer to the methodology post for more.)
As always, please notify me of any corrections or errata.
| Peer Score | School | 2017 | YoY% | BPR | JDA | LSF | 2016 | BPR | JDA | LSF |
| 4.1 | University of Texas-Austin | 86.9% | 1.2 | 259 | 18 | 7 | 85.6% | 289 | 18 | 3 |
| 2.4 | Baylor University | 86.2% | 5.8 | 107 | 4 | 1 | 80.4% | 122 | 4 | 1 |
| 2.7 | Southern Methodist University | 83.1% | 1.4 | 179 | 17 | 0 | 81.6% | 176 | 15 | 0 |
| 1.9 | Texas Tech University | 78.2% | 1.8 | 137 | 17 | 0 | 76.4% | 125 | 14 | 0 |
| 2.6 | University of Houston | 77.5% | -2.1 | 153 | 26 | 0 | 79.6% | 162 | 29 | 0 |
| 2.3 | Texas A&M University | 74.3% | 6.0 | 118 | 18 | 0 | 68.3% | 121 | 19 | 0 |
| 1.7 | St. Mary's University | 70.9% | 2.0 | 118 | 20 | 1 | 68.9% | 144 | 18 | 2 |
| 1.5 | Texas Southern University | 65.6% | 6.7 | 76 | 8 | 0 | 58.9% | 79 | 10 | 0 |
| 1.7 | South Texas College of Law Houston | 61.7% | -0.5 | 157 | 27 | 0 | 62.2% | 175 | 31 | 0 |
| nr | University of North Texas Dallas | 51.5% | - | 17 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - |