Visualizing legal employment outcomes in New York in 2015

Following up on yesterday's post on outcomes in DC-Maryland-Virginia, and last year's post on outcomes in New York, here is a visualization for legal employment outcomes of graduates of New York law schools for the Class of 2015. (More about the methodology is available at the DC-Maryland-Virginia post.)

The number of graduates dropped significantly, from about 4500 for the Class of 2014 to just under 4100 for the Class of 2015. Law school-funded positions have never been very popular, but they declined slightly, from 93 to 73. And as has been the case, the improvements are largely because classes are smaller. There were 3407 full-time, long-term, bar passage required and J.D. advantage jobs, including school-funded positions, for the Class of 2014. That raw figure actually declined somewhat, to 3237 positions for the Class of 2015. But the percentage of the Class of 2015 securing such jobs improved, from to 75.2% to 79.3%.

As always, please notify me of any corrections or errata.

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Peer score	School	2015	YoY%	BPR	JDA	LSF	2014	BPR	JDA	LSF
4.6	Columbia University	98.8%	3.0	360	10	28	95.7%	408	9	31
4.5	New York University	96.7%	0.0	424	14	31	96.7%	412	12	39
4.2	Cornell University	95.5%	-0.8	164	3	3	96.3%	172	1	11
2.1	St. John's University	81.9%	8.7	173	29	1	73.2%	158	32	0
1.9	Albany Law School	80.3%	7.8	119	25	3	72.5%	127	21	0
2.7	Cardozo School of Law	76.8%	9.7	246	32	0	67.1%	221	41	1
3.1	Fordham University	76.1%	2.0	274	37	1	74.1%	311	29	0
1.9	Pace University	75.5%	6.8	93	17	1	68.7%	122	22	5
2.2	Hofstra University	73.8%	2.8	201	17	4	71.0%	180	41	4
2.4	Brooklyn Law School	73.2%	9.3	215	31	0	63.9%	200	44	0
2.2	University of Buffalo-SUNY	70.7%	1.0	115	20	0	69.6%	114	19	0
1.9	New York Law School	67.6%	3.5	171	66	1	64.1%	179	85	2
2.3	Syracuse University	65.6%	-6.4	104	20	0	72.0%	121	31	0
2.1	City University of New York	64.0%	13.3	66	5	0	50.7%	73	3	0
1.5	Touro College	60.4%	-3.9	105	8	0	64.3%	111	15	0