Visualizing legal employment outcomes in DC-Maryland-Virginia in 2017

This is the seventh in a series of visualizations on legal employment outcomes for the Class of 2017. Following posts on outcomes in Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, New York, Illinois, and Ohio, here is a visualization for legal employment outcomes of graduates of DC, Maryland, and Virginia law schools for the Class of 2017. (More about the methodology is available at the Florida post.) Last year's DC-Maryland-Virginia post is here.

There were around 3410 graduates of law schools in the region, down from 3600 last year and 3740 for the Class of 2015, a 10% decline in just two years. Overall unfunded placement rose from 76.8% to 78.3%. Most of that growth came because of the declining number of graduates, but, as a positive improvement, J.D.-advantage placement dropped significantly as bar passage-required placement held steady. Georgetown continues its robust school-funded placement (40 jobs), well ahead of George Washington (9) & Virignia (8).

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Peer score	School	2017	YoY%	BPR	JDA	LSF	2016	BPR	JDA	LSF
4.3	University of Virginia	96.6%	0.6	271	7	8	96.1%	293	5	19
4.1	Georgetown University	89.0%	1.9	504	40	40	87.1%	486	38	44
3.2	Washington & Lee University	83.8%	-0.4	79	4	0	84.2%	73	7	0
3.3	George Washington University	82.6%	2.8	422	69	9	79.8%	373	61	9
2.6	University of Richmond	81.9%	4.9	101	21	0	77.0%	95	19	0
2.8	Antonin Scalia Law School	80.9%	-5.5	92	26	5	86.5%	86	25	4
3.2	William & Mary Law School	80.8%	-0.6	158	10	0	81.3%	162	21	0
2.9	University of Maryland	77.8%	-5.8	108	36	3	83.6%	126	51	1
1.3	Regent University	74.4%	3.9	46	10	2	70.5%	57	5	0
2.0	University of Baltimore	72.8%	-3.4	136	27	0	76.2%	142	69	0
2.4	Howard University	69.9%	6.7	65	6	1	63.2%	65	20	1
1.2	Liberty University	69.0%	5.2	37	3	0	63.8%	32	4	1
2.8	American University	68.0%	1.7	197	56	0	66.3%	219	56	0
1.5	District of Columbia	66.2%	0.2	19	27	1	66.0%	33	30	1
2.2	Catholic University of America	64.0%	-1.3	61	10	0	65.2%	53	37	0
1.2	Appalachian School of Law	59.5%	7.1	22	3	0	52.4%	15	7	0