Visualizing legal employment outcomes in Illinois in 2017
This is the fifth in a series of visualizations on legal employment outcomes for the Class of 2017. Following posts on outcomes in Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, and New York, here is a visualization for legal employment outcomes of graduates of Illinois law schools for the Class of 2017. (More about the methodology is available at the Florida post.) Last year's Illinois post is here.
There were around 1750 graduates of Illinois's 9 law schools, down from around 1820 last year and 2040 in 2015. That's helped placement in bar passage required and J.D. advantage jobs rise to 79.3% (including a few school-funded jobs), up a point over last year. Overall jobs declined slightly.
As always, please notify me of any corrections or errata.
| Peer Score | School | 2017 | YoY% | BPR | JDA | LSF | 2016 | BPR | JDA | LSF |
| 4.6 | University of Chicago | 97.7% | -2.3 | 197 | 4 | 8 | 100.0% | 201 | 4 | 10 |
| 4.2 | Northwestern University (Pritzker) | 94.0% | 1.6 | 204 | 24 | 5 | 92.4% | 203 | 19 | 8 |
| 3.2 | University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign | 86.6% | -0.7 | 111 | 12 | 0 | 87.3% | 131 | 13 | 1 |
| 2.5 | Loyola University Chicago | 77.5% | 4.8 | 138 | 34 | 0 | 72.7% | 119 | 32 | 1 |
| 1.7 | Northern Illinois University | 77.1% | 1.0 | 42 | 11 | 1 | 76.1% | 52 | 14 | 1 |
| 2.5 | Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) | 74.0% | 3.3 | 133 | 32 | 0 | 70.7% | 136 | 35 | 0 |
| 1.7 | The John Marshall Law School | 71.6% | 6.0 | 161 | 43 | 0 | 65.5% | 153 | 41 | 0 |
| 2.3 | DePaul University | 69.6% | -0.5 | 126 | 34 | 0 | 70.1% | 126 | 38 | 0 |
| 1.6 | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale | 58.6% | -10.6 | 64 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | 67 | 14 | 0 |