Career Statistics
According the law professor blog The Faculty Lounge, 39.8% of the Class of 2012 was employed in full-time, long-term positions requiring bar admission, ranking 174th out of 197 law schools.
| Area of employment | Percentage of class |
|---|---|
| Law firms | 54% |
| Business & Industry | 15% |
| Judicial Clerkships | 11% |
| Government | 10% |
| Academia | 5% |
| Public Interest | 3% |
| Military | 2% |
| Region of employment | Percentage of class |
|---|---|
| New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT) | 71% |
| Mid-Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA) | 9% |
| South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV) | 6% |
| Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY) | 4% |
| Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA) | 3% |
| Midwest (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI) | 2% |
| East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN) | 2% |
| North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD) | 1% |
| West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX) | 1% |
| Foreign countries | 1% |
Suffolk University Law School places graduates in all 10 geographic regions according to the Association for Legal Career Professionals. Suffolk places a majority in its home region, New England, with 71% of its graduates finding employment in region, and 87% of those staying in the New England region obtain employment in the state of Massachusetts. The most popular states for Suffolk University Law School graduates to find employment are in Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, the District of Columbia, Virginia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, California, Connecticut, and Maine. The table to the right represents regional placement, with percentages, for the most recent Suffolk University Law School graduates. Suffolk University Law School has alumni that practice in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and twenty-two foreign nations. The ABA also collects data on placement and puts them into seven major categories. They are law firms, business & industry, government, judicial clerkships, military, academia, and public interest. Suffolk University Law School places a majority of its students into law firms, with eleven percent of the entire class working in Big Law, or alternatively twenty-one percent of those working in law firms in Big Law. Additionally, significant portions of the class obtain employment in other fields—business and industry, judicial clerkships and government. The table to the left represents the fields of placement, with percentages, for the most recent class from the Suffolk University Law School.
In 2009 Suffolk University Law School had a first time bar passage rate of 92.82%, fourth out of nine law schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 2008, Suffolk had a first time bar passage rate of 94.37%, third out of nine law schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The median full-time starting salaries for Suffolk graduates was $82,000 in the private sector, and $54,000 in the public sector.
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