Legal employment outcomes in Florida in 2015
This is the sixth in the series of visualizations of legal employment outcomes in 2015. The previous visualizations were for Texas, Ohio, California, New York, and DC-Maryland-Virginia.
As with some other jurisdictions, Texas employment outcomes worsened somewhat. There were 1383 full-time, long-term, bar passage-required jobs (excluded law school-funded positions) for the Class of 2015, down from 1419 for the Class of 2014. (As a separate note, Western Michigan University-Cooley separately reported its Tampa campus outcomes for the Class of 2015, and those totals are included for that class but not the Class of 2014.) There was a significant decline in graduates, from 2445 for the Class of 2014 to just 1973 graduates for the Class of 2015 (2079 if you include Cooley-Tampa's 2015 totals). That was the source of improvement in outcomes for most schools--the overall employment rate stood at 70.9%, up 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. One school whose website self-reported it was not required to disclose its figures was excluded.)
As usual, please notify me of any errors.
| Peer Score | School | 2015 | YoY% | BPR | JDA | LSF | 2014 | BPR | JDA | LSF |
| 2.9 | Florida State University | 81.7% | 4.5 | 183 | 23 | 0 | 77.2% | 180 | 27 | 0 |
| 3.1 | University of Florida | 81.5% | 5.4 | 232 | 15 | 0 | 76.1% | 214 | 21 | 0 |
| 1.6 | Florida International University | 81.0% | 2.4 | 97 | 22 | 0 | 78.6% | 101 | 20 | 0 |
| 2.1 | Stetson University | 79.7% | 4.8 | 171 | 49 | 0 | 74.9% | 175 | 55 | 0 |
| 2.7 | University of Miami | 71.2% | -8.2 | 257 | 40 | 0 | 79.4% | 285 | 44 | 3 |
| 1.6 | Nova Southeastern University | 64.0% | -3.1 | 173 | 10 | 0 | 67.1% | 174 | 14 | 0 |
| 1.3 | St. Thomas University | 50.9% | 0.0 | 71 | 13 | 0 | 50.9% | 102 | 8 | 0 |
| 1.4 | Florida A&M University | 50.3% | 7.2 | 56 | 18 | 0 | 43.1% | 59 | 16 | 0 |
| 1.1 | Ave Maria School of Law | 50.0% | 4.5 | 31 | 11 | 1 | 45.5% | 40 | 9 | 1 |
| 1.1 | Barry University | 48.7% | -8.2 | 80 | 33 | 0 | 56.9% | 89 | 30 | 0 |
| 1.1 | Western Michigan University-Cooley (Tampa) | 45.3% | n/a | 32 | 16 | 0 |