Visualizing legal employment outcomes in New York in 2018

This is the seventh in a series of visualizations on legal employment outcomes for the Class of 2018. Following posts on outcomes in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, Florida, and DC-Maryland-Virginia, here is a visualization for legal employment outcomes of graduates of law schools in New York for the Class of 2018. (More about the methodology is available at the Illinois post.) Last year's New York 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. (USNWR treats them as equivalent, but there are good reasons to think they may not be equivalent; and here, there are significant disparities among some schools and their J.D.-advantage placement.) 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 2786 to 2882; J.D.-advantage rose slightly and school funded positions fell slightly. And while total graduates increased slightly to 3689, the improvement in bar passage-required positions helped increase placement from 84.5% to 86.1%.

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
4.6	New York University	96.7%	-0.4	411	3	29	458	97.1%	429	11	30	484
4.7	Columbia University	96.4%	0.1	420	8	5	449	96.3%	401	2	13	432
4.3	Cornell University	93.4%	-0.2	178	4	1	196	93.6%	186	2	1	202
2.3	St. John's University	91.6%	9.8	186	21	0	226	81.8%	154	21	0	214
3.3	Fordham University	88.4%	10.8	302	24	2	371	77.7%	245	23	3	349
2.8	Cardozo School of Law	84.9%	-2.1	207	23	1	272	87.0%	234	20	0	292
2.2	Hofstra University	82.4%	1.4	186	11	0	239	81.0%	180	12	0	237
1.9	New York Law School	81.0%	6.7	167	52	2	273	74.3%	123	56	0	241
2.6	Brooklyn Law School	80.5%	0.3	245	48	0	364	80.2%	264	31	0	368
1.9	Pace University	79.5%	-5.2	118	14	0	166	84.7%	127	17	0	170
2.0	Albany Law School	79.0%	-1.0	86	8	0	119	80.0%	78	10	0	110
2.2	University of Buffalo-SUNY	78.1%	7.0	101	13	0	146	71.1%	93	15	0	152
2.3	Syracuse University	76.3%	-2.9	116	16	0	173	79.2%	103	15	0	149
2.2	City University of New York	74.0%	2.7	64	7	0	96	71.3%	65	2	0	94
1.5	Touro College	70.2%	-5.0	95	4	0	141	75.2%	104	11	0	153