Five Texas law schools posted better-than-average employment rates for graduates in the class of 2017, according to American Bar Association law school employment data.
At the 10-month mark after graduation, 75.3 percent of 2017 graduates nationwide were employed in full-time, long-term jobs that require bar passage or for which a law degree offers an advantage. The percentages were 86.9 percent at the University of Texas School of Law, 86.2 percent at Baylor Law School, 83.1 percent at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, 78.2 percent at Texas Tech University School of Law, and 77.5 percent at the University of Houston Law Center.
