Visualizing legal employment outcomes in Texas in 2019
This is the third in a series of visualizations on legal employment outcomes for the Class of 2019. Following posts on outcomes in Pennsylvania and Ohio, here is a visualization for legal employment outcomes of graduates of Texas law schools for the Class of 2019. (More about the methodology is available at the Pennsylvania post.) Last year's Texas post is here.
Total jobs, including bar passage-required jobs, improved significantly. Bar passage require jobs rose from 1366 to 1430, while J.D. advantage positions fell slightly. Total graduates also declined slightly. Job placement improved from 76% to 80%, including a few law school-funded jobs.
I typically don’t comment on particular school performances, but I imagine this one may receive some attention. I don’t make any assessment as to the quality of positions. Read the methodology for more—I use the employment placement figures that USNWR adopts, with some different ways of visualizing the data. Texas, for instance, placed 122 graduates into law firms with more than 100 attorneys, and another 34 into federal clerkships. Baylor is less than half the size and placed 16 & 9, respectively. Texas A&M is half the size and placed 10 & 4, respectively. And SMU is slightly smaller but placed 81 & 3, respectively. Again, this is one of many metrics one can use.
As always, please notify me of any corrections or errata.
| Peer Score | School | 2019 | YoY% | BPR | JDA | LSF | Grads | 2018 | BPR | JDA | LSF | Grads |
| 2.4 | Baylor University | 93.7% | 4.7 | 116 | 2 | 1 | 127 | 89.0% | 100 | 5 | 0 | 118 |
| 2.4 | Texas A&M University | 92.3% | 10.4 | 107 | 13 | 0 | 130 | 81.9% | 93 | 20 | 0 | 138 |
| 4.1 | University of Texas-Austin | 89.9% | -2.9 | 255 | 6 | 6 | 297 | 92.8% | 238 | 15 | 6 | 279 |
| 2.7 | Southern Methodist University | 89.1% | 2.0 | 233 | 12 | 0 | 275 | 87.1% | 192 | 17 | 0 | 240 |
| 1.9 | Texas Tech University | 82.2% | -3.6 | 103 | 8 | 0 | 135 | 85.8% | 125 | 8 | 0 | 155 |
| 2.7 | University of Houston | 81.0% | -4.4 | 163 | 24 | 0 | 231 | 85.4% | 171 | 22 | 0 | 226 |
| 1.6 | South Texas College of Law Houston | 72.9% | 5.1 | 173 | 17 | 1 | 262 | 67.8% | 160 | 24 | 1 | 273 |
| 1.6 | St. Mary's University | 72.9% | 10.4 | 131 | 22 | 0 | 210 | 62.5% | 129 | 11 | 0 | 224 |
| nr | University of North Texas Dallas | 59.3% | 1.4 | 56 | 11 | 0 | 113 | 57.9% | 76 | 8 | 0 | 145 |
| 1.4 | Texas Southern University | 57.8% | 9.2 | 93 | 7 | 0 | 173 | 48.6% | 82 | 6 | 0 | 181 |