Visualizing legal employment outcomes in DC-Maryland-Virginia in 2018

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

Please note, of course, that “J.D.-advantage” jobs may differ significantly from school to school, which may alter how one views the “overall” rate. And recall that I sort the table below to include school-funded positions, while the chart only includes unfunded positions. (It’s a reason I try to display the information in different ways!) The market showed improvement for the Class of 2018. Bar passage-required jobs rose from 2318 to 2367; J.D.-advantage and school funded positions both fell slightly. There were more than 100 fewer graduates in this class, helping raise the overal employment rate from 80.3% to 83.9%. (Of note are four schools with fewer than 70 graduates each.)

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

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Peer score	School	2018	YoY%	BPR	JDA	LSF	Grads	2017	BPR	JDA	LSF	Grads
4.4	University of Virginia	97.7%	1.0	277	3	12	299	96.6%	271	7	8	296
4.2	Georgetown University	91.2%	2.2	532	28	33	650	89.0%	504	40	40	656
3	University of Maryland	88.9%	11.1	138	37	1	198	77.8%	108	36	3	189
3.3	William & Mary Law School	88.2%	7.5	149	16	0	187	80.8%	158	10	0	208
3.2	Washington & Lee University	87.6%	3.8	98	1	0	113	83.8%	79	4	0	99
3.5	George Washington University	84.0%	1.4	376	58	3	520	82.6%	422	69	9	605
2.7	George Mason University	83.9%	3.0	90	22	3	137	80.9%	92	26	5	152
2.7	University of Richmond	81.2%	-0.7	118	29	0	181	81.9%	101	21	0	149
1.2	Liberty University	80.0%	11.0	32	4	0	45	69.0%	37	3	0	58
1.2	Regent University	77.3%	2.9	45	5	1	66	74.4%	46	10	2	78
2.1	University of Baltimore	77.0%	4.2	136	21	0	204	72.8%	136	27	0	224
2.6	Howard University	73.7%	3.8	80	17	1	133	69.9%	65	6	1	103
2.8	American University	73.6%	5.6	201	69	3	371	68.0%	197	56	0	372
1.5	District of Columbia	70.1%	4.0	26	20	1	67	66.2%	19	27	1	71
2.1	Catholic University of America	68.0%	4.1	56	10	0	97	64.0%	61	10	0	111
1.2	Appalachian School of Law	51.7%	-7.8	13	2	0	29	59.5%	22	3	0	42