Visualizing legal employment outcomes in Pennsylvania in 2018

This is the second in a series of visualizations on legal employment outcomes for the Class of 2018. Following a post on outcomes in Illinois, here is a visualization for legal employment outcomes of graduates of Pennsylvania law schools for the Class of 2018. (More about the methodology is available at the Illinois post.) Last year's Pennsylvania post is here.

Total graduates were down slightly year-over-year, and the job picture improved a little, with 84.4% employed in bar passage required and J.D. advantage positions, including 11 school-funded positions. Total placement fell slightly, so the improvement is attributable to the slightly smaller number of graduates, from 1256 to 1238.

As always, please notify me of any corrections or errata. UPDATE: Duquesne’s employment data was accidentally overstated in an earlier post and has been edited to present the accurate data.

Peer Score	School	2018	YoY%	BPR	JDA	LSF	Grads	2017	BPR	JDA	LSF	Grads
4.4	University of Pennsylvania	97.9%	-0.9	216	12	10	243	98.8%	232	16	5	256
2.5	Villanova University	88.2%	5.8	127	15	0	161	82.4%	120	11	0	159
2.2	Pennsylvania State - Dickinson Law	87.3%	8.6	51	4	0	63	78.7%	41	7	0	61
2.1	Drexel University	83.7%	2.3	95	13	0	129	81.5%	88	13	0	124
2.7	Temple University	83.3%	-3.4	161	13	0	209	86.6%	172	15	1	217
1.8	Duquesne University	80.0%	0.6	86	13	0	120	79.4%	80	20	0	126
2.3	Penn State Law	80.0%	1.9	86	13	1	125	78.1%	82	7	0	114
2.7	University of Pittsburgh	71.9%	-5.7	85	12	0	135	77.5%	87	20	0	138
1.7	Widener Commonwealth	62.3%	-4.9	32	1	0	53	67.2%	36	5	0	61