Visualizing law school federal judicial clerkship placement, 2013-2015

The release of the latest ABA employment data offers an opportunity to update the three-year federal judicial clerkship placement rates. Here is the clerkship placement rate for the Classes of 2013, 2014, and 2015. Methodology and observations below the interactive visualization. The "placement" is the three-year total placement; the "percentage" is the three-year placement divided by the three-year graduating class total.

The placement is based on graduates reported as having a full-time, long-term federal clerkship. (A one-year term clerkship counts for this category.) I thought a three-year average for clerkships (over 3500 clerks from the graduating classes of 2013, 2014, and 2015) would be a useful metric to smooth out any one-year outliers. It does not include clerkships obtained by students after graduation; it only includes clerkships obtained by each year's graduating class.

I had to add a couple of new-reporting law schools (Belmont & Lincoln) that only report one year's data. Additionally, I merged the entries for Rutgers-Camden and Rutgers-Newark. The three schools in Puerto Rico are excluded.

A raw chart is below.

st	School	Pct	Total Clerks
CT	Yale University	31.3%	202
CA	Stanford University	28.6%	165
MA	Harvard University	16.8%	295
VA	University of Virginia	14.6%	158
CA	University of California-Irvine	13.6%	39
IL	University of Chicago	13.5%	84
CA	University of California-Berkeley	11.0%	95
NC	Duke University	10.2%	68
TN	Vanderbilt University	10.1%	59
MI	University of Michigan	9.4%	108
TX	University of Texas at Austin	9.3%	101
PA	University of Pennsylvania	9.2%	72
NY	Cornell University	8.3%	47
IL	Northwestern University	8.1%	70
AL	University of Alabama	7.7%	37
NY	New York University	7.3%	109
IN	University of Notre Dame	7.0%	38
KY	University of Kentucky	7.0%	27
MT	University of Montana	7.0%	17
GA	University of Georgia	6.8%	45
IA	University of Iowa	5.9%	30
CA	University of California-Los Angeles	5.4%	54
VA	William and Mary Law School	5.1%	31
NY	Columbia University	5.0%	66
NC	University of North Carolina	5.0%	36
PA	Temple University	4.5%	36
VA	Washington and Lee University	4.5%	20
MN	University of Minnesota	4.4%	34
LA	Tulane University	4.4%	32
MA	Boston College	4.3%	33
MO	Washington University	4.2%	33
VA	University of Richmond	4.2%	19
DC	Georgetown University	4.1%	79
DC	George Wasihngton University	4.1%	67
GA	Emory University	4.1%	36
MS	University of Mississippi	4.1%	21
AR	University of Arkansas, Fayetteville	3.8%	15
IL	University of Illinois	3.7%	22
DC	American University	3.6%	51
CA	Pepperdine University	3.6%	22
UT	Brigham Young University	3.6%	15
WY	University of Wyoming	3.6%	8
GA	Georgia State University	3.5%	21
WA	University of Washington	3.5%	20
CA	University of Southern California	3.4%	23
GA	Mercer University	3.4%	14
TN	University of Memphis	3.3%	12
VA	Regent University	3.2%	12
LA	Loyola University-New Orleans	3.1%	21
TX	Baylor University	3.1%	13
WV	West Virginia University	3.1%	12
TX	Texas Tech University	3.0%	20
LA	Louisiana State University	3.0%	19
MO	University of Missouri	3.0%	12
OH	Ohio State University	2.9%	18
IN	Indiana University - Bloomington	2.8%	18
AZ	University of Arizona	2.8%	12
UT	University of Utah	2.8%	11
NY	Brooklyn Law School	2.6%	31
MD	University of Maryland	2.6%	22
NE	Creighton University	2.6%	10
ME	University of Maine	2.6%	7
NC	Wake Forest University	2.5%	12
TN	University of Tennessee	2.5%	11
DC	Howard University	2.5%	9
CA	Loyola Law School-Los Angeles	2.4%	28
FL	University of Florida	2.4%	23
FL	Florida State University	2.4%	18
VA	George Mason University	2.4%	14
MS	Mississippi College	2.4%	12
PA	Pennsylvania State University	2.4%	9
TX	Southern Methodist University	2.3%	17
SC	University of South Carolina	2.3%	14
OH	University of Toledo	2.3%	8
KY	University of Louisville	2.2%	8
NE	University of Nebraska	2.2%	8
ND	University of North Dakota	2.2%	5
CT	University of Connecticut	2.1%	11
KS	University of Kansas	2.1%	9
NY	Fordham University	2.0%	27
PA	University of Pittsburgh	2.0%	13
PA	Drexel University	2.0%	8
SD	University of South Dakota	1.9%	4
MA	Boston University	1.8%	13
CA	University of California-Davis	1.8%	10
CO	University of Colorado	1.8%	9
NV	University of Nevada - Las Vegas	1.7%	7
NJ	Rutgers Law School	1.6%	24
PA	Villanova University	1.6%	11
AZ	Arizona State University	1.6%	10
NC	Campbell University	1.6%	7
OH	University of Cincinnati	1.6%	6
CA	University of California-Hastings	1.5%	16
OR	Lewis and Clark College	1.5%	10
NY	Syracuse University	1.5%	9
OR	University of Oregon	1.5%	7
ID	University of Idaho	1.5%	5
CA	University of San Diego	1.4%	12
NJ	Seton Hall University	1.3%	10
WI	Marquette University	1.3%	9
OH	Case Western Reserve University	1.3%	7
KY	Northern Kentucky University	1.3%	6
IA	Drake University	1.3%	5
PA	Widener-Commonwealth	1.3%	4
NC	Elon University	1.3%	4
VA	Liberty University	1.3%	3
NY	Cardozo School of Law	1.2%	14
NM	University of New Mexico	1.2%	4
NY	St. John's University	1.1%	9
TX	University of Houston	1.1%	8
NY	University of Buffalo-SUNY	1.1%	7
SC	Charleston School of Law	1.1%	6
FL	Ave Maria School of Law	1.1%	4
NY	New York Law School	1.0%	13
IL	Loyola University-Chicago	1.0%	8
WI	University of Wisconsin	1.0%	7
MA	Northeastern University	1.0%	6
NY	Albany Law School	1.0%	6
OK	University of Oklahoma	1.0%	5
AL	Samford University	1.0%	4
AR	University of Arkansas, Little Rock	1.0%	4
NY	City University of New York	1.0%	4
OK	University of Tulsa	1.0%	3
FL	University of Miami	0.9%	11
WA	Seattle University	0.9%	8
MN	University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)	0.9%	4
MI	Michigan State University	0.8%	7
CO	University of Denver	0.8%	7
FL	Stetson University	0.8%	7
MI	Wayne State University	0.8%	4
VT	Vermont Law School	0.8%	4
PA	Duquesne University	0.8%	4
OH	Ohio Northern University	0.8%	2
MA	Suffolk University	0.7%	10
IL	John Marshall Law School	0.7%	9
CA	California Western School of Law	0.7%	5
DE	Widener University-Delaware	0.7%	5
CA	McGeorge School of Law	0.7%	5
DC	Catholic University of America	0.7%	4
OH	Cleveland State University	0.7%	3
MO	University of Missouri-Kansas City	0.7%	3
NH	University of New Hampshire	0.7%	2
NY	Hofstra University	0.6%	6
CA	Thomas Jefferson School of Law	0.6%	5
NY	Pace University	0.6%	4
IN	Valparaiso University	0.6%	3
RI	Roger Williams University	0.6%	3
IL	Southern Illinois University-Carbondale	0.6%	2
IL	Depaul University	0.5%	4
MO	Saint Louis University	0.5%	4
FL	St. Thomas University (Florida)	0.5%	3
LA	Southern University	0.5%	3
OH	University of Dayton	0.5%	2
AZ	Arizona Summit Law School	0.4%	4
IN	Indiana University - Indianapolis	0.4%	3
TX	St. Mary's University	0.4%	3
TX	Texas Southern University	0.4%	2
CA	Chapman University	0.4%	2
VA	Appalachian School of Law	0.4%	1
AL	Faulkner University	0.4%	1
CA	Southwestern Law School	0.3%	3
IL	Northern Illinois University	0.3%	1
MA	Western New England University	0.3%	1
CA	Western State College of Law	0.3%	1
TX	South Texas College of Law	0.2%	2
MN	William Mitchell College of Law	0.2%	2
MD	University of Baltimore	0.2%	2
NC	Charlotte School of Law	0.2%	2
OH	University of Akron	0.2%	1
FL	Florida A&M University	0.2%	1
TX	Texas A&M University	0.2%	1
MI	University of Detroit Mercy	0.2%	1
FL	Florida International University	0.2%	1
WA	Gonzaga University	0.2%	1
MN	Hamline University	0.2%	1
NC	North Carolina Central University	0.2%	1
CA	Whittier Law School	0.2%	1
MI	Thomas M. Colley Law School	0.1%	2
MA	New England Law | Boston	0.1%	1
IL	Chicago-Kent College of Law-IIT	0.1%	1
FL	Florida Coastal School of Law	0.1%	1
FL	Nova Southeastern University	0.1%	1
GA	Atlanta's John Marshall Law School	0.0%	0
FL	Barry University	0.0%	0
TN	Belmont University	0.0%	0
OH	Capital University	0.0%	0
DC	District of Columbia	0.0%	0
CA	Golden Gate University	0.0%	0
HI	University of Hawaii	0.0%	0
TN	Lincoln Memorial	0.0%	0
OK	Oklahoma City University	0.0%	0
CT	Quinnipiac University	0.0%	0
CA	University of San Francisco	0.0%	0
CA	Santa Clara University	0.0%	0
NY	Touro College	0.0%	0
CA	University of La Verne	0.0%	0
MA	University of Massachusetts Dartmouth	0.0%	0
KS	Washburn University	0.0%	0
OR	Willamette University	0.0%	0