By February 2006, 294 of the 295 members of the Class of 2005
(99.7% of the entire class) reported their employment status to the
Office of Career Services. The following data was compiled
from the graduates’ responses:
- Placement Rate: 96.6 percent nine months after graduation
- Median starting salary for year 2005 graduates employed
full-time in the private sector: $72,800
- Seventy-fifth percentile salary for year 2005 graduates
employed full-time in private sector jobs: $125,000
- Twenty-fifth percentile salary for year 2005 graduates employed
full-time in private sector jobs: $51,000
Types of Employment
For graduates known to be employed, the percentages employed in
such areas are:
- Law Firms: 51%
- Government: 18.1%
- Military: 0.4%
- Business and Industry: 21.2%
- Judicial Clerkships: 3.9%
- Public Interest: 1.9%
- Academic: 3.1%
- Unknown: 0.4%
Employment Distribution by Size of Law
Firms:
- Self Employed: 0%
- Two to 10 Attorneys: 32.8%
- 11 to 25 Attorneys: 10.7%
- 26 to 50 Attorneys: 7.6%
- 51 to 100 Attorneys: 8.4%
- 101 to 250 Attorneys: 13.7%
- 251 to 500 Attorneys: 9.9%
- 501+ Attorneys: 13.7%
- Size Unknown: 3.1%