Visualizing legal employment outcomes in Florida in 2018

This is the fifth in a series of visualizations on legal employment outcomes for the Class of 2018. Following posts on outcomes in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio, here is a visualization for legal employment outcomes of graduates of Florida law schools for the Class of 2018. (More about the methodology is available at the Illinois post.) Last year's Florida post is here.

The Florida report is one of the most positive employment reports so far. Total bar passage-require jobs rose significantly, from 1364 in 2017 to 1430 in 2018. A small uptick in J.D.-advantage placement and a small drop in total graduates resulted in an improvement for placement from 69.8% to 74.5%, which brings placement more in line with others states.

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Peer Score	School	2018	YoY%	BPR	JDA	LSF	Grads	2017	BPR	JDA	LSF	Grads
3.3	University of Florida	88.4%	2.0	258	24	1	320	86.4%	246	33	1	324
3.1	Florida State University	85.8%	5.5	150	18	1	197	80.3%	150	21	0	213
2.8	University of Miami	84.3%	1.6	249	36	0	338	82.7%	195	20	0	260
2.1	Stetson University	83.3%	6.1	168	21	0	227	77.2%	167	36	0	263
2.1	Florida International University	82.9%	2.2	109	12	0	146	80.6%	112	13	0	155
1.2	Barry University	67.9%	6.2	91	38	0	190	61.7%	75	25	0	162
1.2	Ave Maria School of Law	65.7%	16.3	39	7	0	70	49.4%	32	8	0	81
1.5	St. Thomas University	64.3%	5.7	111	6	0	182	58.6%	99	7	0	181
1.2	Florida Coastal School of Law	60.8%	14.1	94	19	0	186	46.6%	97	14	0	238
1.6	Nova Southeastern University	57.5%	-4.9	109	17	0	219	62.4%	129	12	0	226
1.5	Florida A&M University	50.4%	-1.5	52	14	0	131	51.9%	62	7	0	133