Fordham Law School was lauded in a recent U.S. News article for the noteworthy percentage of its graduates who go on to high-paying jobs in the private sector.
Many high-paying law firms recruit recent J.D. grads from top-ranked law schools. In US News’ 2019 Best Law Schools ranking, law school degree grads from the class of 2016 who completed their degree at an institution ranked among the top 15 earned $180,000 on average in the private sector… But there are two law schools not ranked in the top 15 where grads from 2016 earned an average of $180,000 in the private sector: Fordham University (School of Law) in New York and George Washington University (School of Law) in the District of Columbia.”