Visualizing legal employment outcomes in Illinois in 2019

This is the fourth in a series of visualizations on legal employment outcomes for the Class of 2019. Following posts on outcomes in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Texas, here is a visualization for legal employment outcomes of graduates of Illinois law schools for the Class of 2019. (More about the methodology is available at the Pennsylvania post.) Last year's Illinois post is here.

The market appears to be flat to slightly declining for Illinois law schools, in contrast to other states so far. Graduates fell from 1696 to 1604, and placement in bar passage-required jobs was essentially unchanged from 1162 positions to 1158. But J.D.-advantage placement and law school-funded jobs dropped off a bit, for a slight overall placement rate improvement from 82% to 84%.

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Peer Score	School	2019	YoY%	BPR	JDA	LSF	Grads	2018	BPR	JDA	LSF	Grads
4.6	University of Chicago	97.5%	-0.5	189	2	6	202	98.1%	188	4	10	206
4.2	Northwestern University (Pritzker)	95.8%	-1.1	208	22	0	240	96.9%	205	12	5	229
3.2	University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign	94.3%	2.3	107	8	0	122	91.9%	118	19	0	149
1.7	Northern Illinois University	86.7%	20.5	65	5	2	83	66.2%	43	8	0	77
2.6	Loyola University Chicago	84.3%	-1.2	140	26	0	197	85.5%	119	46	0	193
2.3	DePaul University	79.8%	6.4	120	50	0	213	73.5%	126	40	0	226
2.6	Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent)	78.9%	-2.2	157	26	0	232	81.0%	149	39	0	232
2.1	UIC - John Marshall	67.1%	-0.4	120	35	0	231	67.5%	151	33	1	274
1.6	Southern Illinois University-Carbondale	66.7%	-0.6	52	4	0	84	67.3%	63	11	0	110