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Key facts

Total 2021 graduates: 222

  • Includes 7 transfer students
  • 67.1% of graduates had long-term, full-time legal jobs
  • 87.4% graduates had any long-term job
  • 86% graduates had any full-time job
  • Enrolled 230 new 1L students in 2022, -4.2% compared to 240 in 2019 (2022 grads)

Key jobs data

Source of job offer

2018 graduates

Timing of job offer

2018 graduates

Public service

19.8%
2021 grads

National firms

14%
2021 grads

Regional Firms

18.9%
2021 grads
2021 graduate jobs by employer type

2018 State placement

State Total
New York 0.9%
Pennsylvania 0.4%
Illinois 77.6%
Michigan 2.2%
Wisconsin 0.4%
Kansas 0.4%
Minnesota 1.3%
Missouri 0.4%
Washington, D.C. 1.3%
Florida 0.4%
North Carolina 0.4%
Alabama 0.4%
Texas 1.3%
Arizona 0.4%
Colorado 0.4%
Nevada 0.9%
California 1.3%
Foreign employed 0.4%
Employed 90.9%
Non-employed 9.1%

Other 2018 jobs data

Law firm jobs

Statisticnumberpercentage
Attorney11348.7%
Staff attorney31.3%
Law clerk114.7%
Paralegal20.9%
Administrative00%
Unknown20.9%
Employed - firm13156.5%
Employed - non-firm8034.5%
Non-employed219.1%
Total232100%
Statisticnumberpercentage
Bar passage required11750.4%
JD advantage146%
Professional00%
Non-professional00%
Unknown00%
Employed - firm13156.5%
Employed - non-firm8034.5%
Non-employed219.1%
Total232100%

Business jobs

Statisticnumberpercentage
Bar passage required52.2%
JD advantage3515.1%
Professional20.9%
Non-professional10.4%
Unknown00%
Employed - business4318.5%
Employed - non-business16872.4%
Non-employed219.1%
Total232100%

Education jobs

Statisticnumberpercentage
Bar passage required00%
JD advantage10.4%
Professional10.4%
Non-professional00%
Unknown00%
Employed - academic20.9%
Employed - non-academic20990.1%
Non-employed219.1%
Total232100%

Government jobs

Statisticnumberpercentage
Bar passage required135.6%
JD advantage20.9%
Professional00%
Non-professional00%
Unknown20%
Employed - government177.3%
Employed - non-government19483.6%
Non-employed219.1%
Total232100%

Public interest jobs

Statisticnumberpercentage
Bar passage required104.3%
JD advantage20.9%
Professional10.4%
Non-professional00%
Unknown00%
Employed - public interest114.7%
Employed - non-public int.20086.2%
Non-employed219.1%
Total232100%

The sub-totals on these tables do not always add up exactly because we combine two data sources, the ABA and NALP. While much of the underlying data are the same, these differences reflect some definitional inconsistencies and NALP's active role in sanitizing school-reported data each summer.