Going to law school is no longer a guaranteed pathway to financial and career success. In a Gallup poll of over 4,000 American adults who earned a postgraduate degree between 2000 and 2015, just 23 percent of law school graduates said that their education was worth the cost and only 20 percent said that their schooling prepared them well for post-grad life.
div > div.group > p:first-child"> But after analyzing 144 law schools across the country, U.S. News & World Report found that there are several law schools that definitely worth the cost. According to U.S. News, the median private sector salary for recent J.D. recipients is $68,300, and the median public sector salary is $52,000. However, graduates from the top 10 law schools in the country earned over six figures.Assessment by lawyers and judges: 4.5Acceptance rate: 23 percentEmployed 10 months after graduation: 87.6 percentJurisdiction's overall bar passage rate: 54 percentUndergraduate GPA 25th-75th percentile: 3.56-3.94Student-to-faculty ratio: 6.
Getting into a top-tier law program like Yale is not easy. The 25th percentile of Yale students earned an undergraduate GPA of 3.83 and the 75th percentile earned an almost perfect 3.97. The acceptance rate for Yale Law School is just 8 percent. However, Yalies were not the most likely to be employed upon graduation. While 83.3 percent of Yale Law grads had a job lined up, a whopping 94.6 percent of University of Pennsylvania students graduated with a job.
Do they have a vocational school for that?