Stats of the Week: Law Schools With The Worst Salary-To-Debt Ratios
You better hope your law school isn't on this list.
On Monday, we will publish the 2016 ATL Top 50 Law School Rankings. This year, we’ve added a new wrinkle to our methodology: a “salary-to-debt” ratio, which expresses the relationship between a school’s graduates’ average salaries versus their loan burden. (See here for details of how we sourced and calculated this data point.)
Last week, we shared with you which schools perform relatively well under this metric. With an average salary-to-debt ratio for all law school graduates at 0.94 (i.e., the grads’ annual salary is 94% of what they owe), the best performing (by far) school was BYU, with a ratio of 1.71. Today we go in a different direction. Here are the bottom 5 law schools according to the salary-to-debt data:
- Valparaiso (.58)
- Thomas Jefferson (.56)
- Florida Coastal (.56)
- Barry University (.53)
- St. Thomas (Florida)(.52)
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Our profound and heartfelt condolences and best wishes to these alumni groups.
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