<p>According to Princeton Law Review, the University of Chicago Law School is the best school to attend to have more recruiters and best chance of employment upon graduation. Followed by Northwestern, U Penn, Boston U, and Columbia. Is this accurate?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure people who gradute those schools with decent GPA's are very employable..I wouldn't worry.</p>
<p>It's ridiculous. There are a ton of different ways to develop such rankings - percent of grads employed upon graduation, percent employed in big-city firms, percent employed 9 months later, ratio of on-campus recruiters to students, ratio of interviews to students, number of per-student job offers, percent in non-gov't work (which could or could not exclude judicial clerks)...</p>
<p>so yeah, it's probalby accurate, in that there is some methodology for determining that ranking. Whether or not that has any bearing on the actual question of employment is a different story.</p>
<p>Somehow, I think that Harvard Law, Yale Law, and Stanford Law aren't doing too shabbily, even though they don't show up on that Princeton-Review list. Somehow, I doubt that too many people are going to turn down Harvard, Yale, or Stanford to go to BU Law even if the Princeton Review has somehow determined that BU has better career prospects.</p>
<p>just a guess, but perhaps because harvard, yale, and stanford produce some of their class into academia instead of practicing law jobs? i mean, i dont doubt BU has good career prospects, but if it had to compete against a harvard grad in the same market, it would probably be beaten out.</p>
<p>KFC: absolutely correct - generally, H grads get the best jobs in Boston, followed by BC, then by BU. </p>
<p>There's also my usual rant of "Go to a top 14 school; if you can't get into one of those, try for the top school in the region in which you want to practice." </p>
<p>See, if you took BU out of the above list, it would make a lot of sense. Top schools in the country, which place primarily into big legal markets (Boston has a fairly small legal market, although most H grads go to NYC; a lot of Penn grads end up in either NYC or DC). Once you throw BU into the mix, I start to wonder who pulled the methodology out of their rears (to be blunt).</p>
<p>What do you mean by top 14 school (I assume you mean law school)?</p>
<p>Do you have that list? Thanks. :)</p>
<ol>
<li>yale</li>
<li>harvard</li>
<li>stanford</li>
<li>columbia</li>
<li>nyu</li>
<li>u chicago</li>
<li>u penn</li>
<li>michigan, virginia</li>
<li>northwestern</li>
<li>cornell, duke, uc berkeley</li>
<li>georgetown</li>
</ol>
<p>anything below that is considered more regional than national.</p>
<p>I think it is all about location and type of job. Obviously big cities are more likely to get better jobs and have more of them. That's all the list was trying to prove. Not which graduates are the most wanted but the graduates most likely to get a high paying job right away.</p>
<p>but i'd wonder why NYU isnt up there with columbia, or why harvard isnt on the same list as BU, even though both are in the same market (and for harvard grads, NYC is their market too). </p>
<p>hmm... los angeles and san francisco arent top legal markets? =(</p>
<p>nor DC, explicitly? (Like Georgetown)</p>
<p>USNews will tell you what %age of grads are employed by graduation and what percentage are employed 9 months later. I seriously doubt that BU is in the top 5, although I'm almost certain that Penn has 100% by the 9-month mark.</p>
<p>
[quote]
1. yale
2. harvard
3. stanford
4. columbia
5. nyu
6. u chicago
7. u penn
8. michigan, virginia
10. northwestern
11. cornell, duke, uc berkeley
14. georgetown
[/quote]
</p>
<p>So a place like UCLA or USC would only be good if I planned on living in LA?</p>
<p>More like the top15 list, can't forget UCLA.</p>
<p>Personally, if you want to have a good position into attaining a job virtually anywhere nationally, then you would definitely want to consider the following schools: Columbia, U Chicago, Harvard, Yale, and U Michigan. Oh yeah, U Penn also. Those are the schools that can open many doors.</p>
<p>stanford doesnt belong in that list? ^</p>
<p>"More like the top15 list, can't forget UCLA."</p>
<p>i've always heard UCLA and UT-Austin aren't exactly national, but they're far better than their regional counterparts. theyre somewhat in the middle between the national group and the regional group.</p>