How Many People Drop Out Of Law School?
Law School Dropout Rates In this post, we are going to take a look at dropout rates for law schools. Dropouts are significant because generally, they mean one or both of a couple things: either the student feels him or herself unequal to the challenge presented by the law school environment, or the prospect of mounting debt and a poor employment outlook compel the student to bail out.
In either case, dropouts are left having paid a significant sum for no tangible benefit. Needless to say, in an ideal system there would be few to no dropouts. That isn’t the system we have. Although one part of the law school system, schools with high median LSAT scores, is functioning well, with minimal attrition, the rear of the pack is not.
As law schools generally lowered admissions standards in the decade since the recession, dropout rates increased. Stephanie Ward of the ABA gives us a good breakdown of figures from recent years: At law schools with median LSAT scores between 155 to 159, the average academic attrition rate for the 2014-2015 school year was 2.0 percent.
- For the 2015-2016 school year, it was 1.8 percent.
- For law schools with median LSAT scores between 150 to 154, academic attrition for the 2014-2015 school year averaged out to 4.7 percent, and 4.6 percent for the 2015-2016 school year.
- At law schools with median LSAT scores below 150 but above 145, academic attrition went from 12.7 percent for the 2014-2015 school year to 14.3 percent for the 2015-2016 school year.
And among law schools where the median LSAT score was 145 or lower, the average academic attrition rate for the 2015-2016 school year was 25.3 percent. Although attrition is apparently stabilizing, these numbers should be of great concern to anyone thinking about attending a lower ranked school.
An LSAT below 150 may be a good indicator that someone is not sufficiently likely to benefit from attending law school, as there is a high chance of getting nothing for the effort. Taking a look at the data below, attrition is minimal through about the top 100 schools, then increases precipitously. Compare this list to our list of, and you’ll see an incredibly strong correlation between lower medians and higher dropout rates.
Though the ABA has failed to take significant action so far, there has been extensive discussion of schools with unacceptably high dropout rates losing accreditation.
| Law School | 1L Dropout Rate % |
|---|---|
| Arizona Summit | 65.31% |
| Florida Coastal School of Law | 38.68% |
| North Carolina Central | 28.92% |
| Thomas Jefferson School of Law | 26.51% |
| University of San Francisco | 23.78% |
| Capital University Law School | 23.27% |
| Widener University | 21.09% |
| Liberty University School of Law | 20.55% |
| Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School | 19.44% |
| Elon University School of Law | 18.84% |
| St. Thomas (Florida) | 17.84% |
| Florida A&M University Law | 17.57% |
| California Western School of Law | 17.49% |
| Ohio Northern University (Pettit) | 17.31% |
| Southwestern Law School | 17.27% |
| University of Dayton | 17.20% |
| Faulkner University | 16.90% |
| Nova Southeastern Law | 16.37% |
| University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth | 16.25% |
| Florida International University | 16.11% |
| University of Memphis (Humphreys) | 15.89% |
| Western State College of Law | 15.85% |
| Ave Maria School of Law | 15.46% |
| Howard University | 15.17% |
| Golden Gate University School of Law | 15.05% |
| Touro College Law Center | 14.69% |
| UNT Dallas | 14.42% |
| St. Mary’s University | 14.09% |
| Western Michigan University (Cooley) | 13.97% |
| South Texas College of Law | 13.85% |
| Appalachian School of Law | 13.70% |
| New York Law School | 13.26% |
| University of the Pacific (McGeorge) | 13.16% |
| Texas Tech University | 12.95% |
| Regent University School of Law | 12.90% |
| University of Arkansas—Little Rock | 12.86% |
| Northern Kentucky University | 12.84% |
| New England Law— Boston | 12.43% |
| University of the District of Columbia | 11.83% |
| Campbell University | 11.80% |
| Suffolk University | 11.76% |
| Syracuse University | 11.17% |
| Georgia State University | 11.05% |
| University of Missouri | 10.87% |
| Duquesne University | 10.81% |
| Mercer University (George) | 10.66% |
| Texas Southern University Law | 10.55% |
| University of South Dakota | 10.53% |
| Southern University Law Center | 10.50% |
| Concordia University School of Law | 10.42% |
| Barry University | 10.29% |
| Northern Illinois University | 10.20% |
| Widener University Delaware | 10.19% |
| University of Idaho | 9.91% |
| Belmont University College of Law | 9.82% |
| Oklahoma City University | 9.82% |
| University of Toledo | 9.78% |
| Texas A&M University | 9.42% |
| Inter American University Law | 9.28% |
| Seattle University | 9.14% |
| University of Akron | 8.81% |
| Southern Illinois University Carbondale | 8.77% |
| Washburn University | 8.77% |
| Charleston School of Law | 8.76% |
| CUNY | 8.60% |
| University of Arkansas—Fayetteville | 8.40% |
| Mississippi College School of Law | 8.40% |
| Cleveland State University | 8.33% |
| University of San Diego | 8.33% |
| Pepperdine University | 8.28% |
| Case Western Reserve University | 8.21% |
| Seton Hall University | 8.12% |
| University of New Hampshire | 8.11% |
| Lincoln Memorial University | 8.00% |
| University of La Verne Law | 7.95% |
| University of Denver (Sturm) | 7.66% |
| Gonzaga University | 7.56% |
| University of Baltimore | 7.54% |
| Western New England University | 7.53% |
| Roger Williams University Law | 7.45% |
| Pace University | 6.85% |
| Santa Clara University | 6.82% |
| Hofstra University (Deane) | 6.80% |
| Albany Law School | 6.67% |
| Creighton University | 6.54% |
| University of Detroit Mercy | 6.54% |
| University of Kansas | 6.54% |
| Brooklyn Law School | 6.50% |
| Michigan State University | 6.39% |
| Chapman University (Fowler) | 5.99% |
| John Marshall Law School | 5.98% |
| Drexel University | 5.96% |
| Pennsylvania State University | 5.88% |
| Catholic University of America | 5.83% |
| Drake University | 5.83% |
| Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago) | 5.68% |
| Quinnipiac University | 5.60% |
| LSU — Baton Rouge (Hebert) | 5.59% |
| Loyola Marymount University | 5.21% |
| Mitchell Hamline | 5.10% |
| University of Oregon | 4.86% |
| Marquette University | 4.84% |
| St. Louis University | 4.76% |
| Samford University (Cumberland) | 4.73% |
| University of South Carolina | 4.65% |
| Arizona State University (O’Connor) | 4.63% |
| University of Nebraska—Lincoln | 4.55% |
| Willamette University (Collins) | 4.55% |
| Loyola University New Orleans | 4.52% |
| University of Puerto Rico | 4.42% |
| University of Tulsa | 4.26% |
| University of Alabama | 4.03% |
| Pontifical Catholic (Puerto Rico) | 4.00% |
| University of California (Hastings) | 3.99% |
| George Mason University | 3.98% |
| Loyola University Chicago | 3.88% |
| Vermont Law School | 3.73% |
| Valparaiso University Law School | 3.57% |
| University of Mississippi | 3.54% |
| University of Maine | 3.53% |
| Stetson University | 3.37% |
| Southern Methodist University | 3.37% |
| University of Illinois Law | 3.27% |
| Yeshiva University (Cardozo) | 3.26% |
| Ohio State University (Moritz) | 3.26% |
| DePaul University | 3.21% |
| Baylor University | 2.99% |
| Brigham Young University (Clark) | 2.97% |
| University of Nevada—Las Vegas | 2.86% |
| University of Louisville (Brandeis) | 2.84% |
| SUNY Buffalo Law School | 2.78% |
| Temple University (Beasley) | 2.69% |
| Washington University at St. Louis | 2.67% |
| University of Kentucky | 2.65% |
| University of California—Davis | 2.65% |
| University of Georgia | 2.65% |
| University of Oklahoma | 2.52% |
| University of Tennessee—Knoxville | 2.44% |
| Washington and Lee University | 2.44% |
| University of California—Los Angeles | 2.38% |
| University of North Carolina | 2.35% |
| Villanova University | 2.29% |
| George Washington University | 2.21% |
| University of Utah (Quinney) | 2.20% |
| University of Hawaii | 2.13% |
| University of Pittsburgh | 2.13% |
| Emory University | 2.10% |
| University of Cincinnati | 2.08% |
| Indiana University—Indianapolis | 2.08% |
| University of Virginia | 1.88% |
| University of Miami | 1.86% |
| Indiana University—Bloomington | 1.85% |
| West Virginia University | 1.83% |
| University of Richmond | 1.74% |
| Rutgers—Newark | 1.73% |
| Florida State University | 1.68% |
| University of Missouri | 1.64% |
| University of Southern California | 1.60% |
| University of Minnesota | 1.53% |
| University of Iowa | 1.53% |
| Tulane University | 1.44% |
| Harvard University | 1.43% |
| University of Wyoming | 1.39% |
| Georgetown University | 1.37% |
| Penn State Dickinson | 1.37% |
| University of St. Thomas | 1.37% |
| Wayne State University | 1.36% |
| University of Florida | 1.33% |
| University of Wisconsin | 1.32% |
| University of California—Berkeley | 1.32% |
| University of California — Irvine | 1.26% |
| University of Arizona | 1.25% |
| University of Michigan | 1.25% |
| Fordham University | 1.22% |
| St. John’s University | 1.20% |
| Stanford University | 1.11% |
| University of Colorado | 1.05% |
| University of Notre Dame | 1.01% |
| University of Maryland | 0.97% |
| New York University | 0.94% |
| University of Pennsylvania | 0.82% |
| Boston College | 0.79% |
| American University (D.C.) | 0.72% |
| University of Connecticut | 0.69% |
| University of Texas—Austin | 0.65% |
| Wake Forest University | 0.64% |
| University of Washington | 0.60% |
| Lewis & Clark Law | 0.59% |
| William and Mary | 0.54% |
| University of Houston | 0.44% |
| Boston University | 0.42% |
| Columbia University | 0.26% |
| University of Chicago | 0.00% |
| Cornell University | 0.00% |
| Duke University | 0.00% |
| University of Montana | 0.00% |
| University of New Mexico | 0.00% |
| University of North Dakota | 0.00% |
| Northeastern University | 0.00% |
| Northwestern University | 0.00% |
| Vanderbilt University | 0.00% |
| Yale University | 0.00% |
Law School Dropout Rates
Why do so many people drop out of Law School?
Unaccredited law schools have the highest law school dropout rate – California, Alaska, and Tennessee are the only states allowing unaccredited law schools. The investigation by the Los Angeles Times revealed 9 out of 10 dropouts in California unaccredited law schools.
That is a 90% law school dropout rate. This is an extremely high number which suggests that either people who get accepted to unaccredited law school have no idea what they were doing, or the admission process in itself is flawed and unaccredited law schools are accepting people who should not be there in the first place.
https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-law-schools-20150726-story.html I do recall one unaccredited law school in Texas go bust, where its law students had to be taken by several 3rd and 4th tier law schools around. The fact of the existence of unaccredited law school is a major flaw in the system.
- I mean, business is business, and such schools represent the pure libertarian idea of a completely free market, but they should not be called “law schools” and treated as such.
- Rather law colleges, law centers, or whatever else.
- Generally, unaccredited law schools have no bar passage rate requirements like accredited law schools.
Students are attracted by costs. Some unaccredited law schools charge as low as $3,000 in annual tuition. Compare that with $45,000+ in-state tuition for UCLA School of Law for California residents. So, in my opinion, do not go to unaccredited law school unless you can go very cheaply.
Can schools with high dropout rates lose accreditation?
Law School Dropout Rates In this post, we are going to take a look at dropout rates for law schools. Dropouts are significant because generally, they mean one or both of a couple things: either the student feels him or herself unequal to the challenge presented by the law school environment, or the prospect of mounting debt and a poor employment outlook compel the student to bail out.
- In either case, dropouts are left having paid a significant sum for no tangible benefit.
- Needless to say, in an ideal system there would be few to no dropouts.
- That isn’t the system we have.
- Although one part of the law school system, schools with high median LSAT scores, is functioning well, with minimal attrition, the rear of the pack is not.
As law schools generally lowered admissions standards in the decade since the recession, dropout rates increased. Stephanie Ward of the ABA gives us a good breakdown of figures from recent years: At law schools with median LSAT scores between 155 to 159, the average academic attrition rate for the 2014-2015 school year was 2.0 percent.
- For the 2015-2016 school year, it was 1.8 percent.
- For law schools with median LSAT scores between 150 to 154, academic attrition for the 2014-2015 school year averaged out to 4.7 percent, and 4.6 percent for the 2015-2016 school year.
- At law schools with median LSAT scores below 150 but above 145, academic attrition went from 12.7 percent for the 2014-2015 school year to 14.3 percent for the 2015-2016 school year.
And among law schools where the median LSAT score was 145 or lower, the average academic attrition rate for the 2015-2016 school year was 25.3 percent. Although attrition is apparently stabilizing, these numbers should be of great concern to anyone thinking about attending a lower ranked school.
- An LSAT below 150 may be a good indicator that someone is not sufficiently likely to benefit from attending law school, as there is a high chance of getting nothing for the effort.
- Taking a look at the data below, attrition is minimal through about the top 100 schools, then increases precipitously.
- Compare this list to our list of, and you’ll see an incredibly strong correlation between lower medians and higher dropout rates.
Though the ABA has failed to take significant action so far, there has been extensive discussion of schools with unacceptably high dropout rates losing accreditation.
| Law School | 1L Dropout Rate % |
|---|---|
| Arizona Summit | 65.31% |
| Florida Coastal School of Law | 38.68% |
| North Carolina Central | 28.92% |
| Thomas Jefferson School of Law | 26.51% |
| University of San Francisco | 23.78% |
| Capital University Law School | 23.27% |
| Widener University | 21.09% |
| Liberty University School of Law | 20.55% |
| Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School | 19.44% |
| Elon University School of Law | 18.84% |
| St. Thomas (Florida) | 17.84% |
| Florida A&M University Law | 17.57% |
| California Western School of Law | 17.49% |
| Ohio Northern University (Pettit) | 17.31% |
| Southwestern Law School | 17.27% |
| University of Dayton | 17.20% |
| Faulkner University | 16.90% |
| Nova Southeastern Law | 16.37% |
| University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth | 16.25% |
| Florida International University | 16.11% |
| University of Memphis (Humphreys) | 15.89% |
| Western State College of Law | 15.85% |
| Ave Maria School of Law | 15.46% |
| Howard University | 15.17% |
| Golden Gate University School of Law | 15.05% |
| Touro College Law Center | 14.69% |
| UNT Dallas | 14.42% |
| St. Mary’s University | 14.09% |
| Western Michigan University (Cooley) | 13.97% |
| South Texas College of Law | 13.85% |
| Appalachian School of Law | 13.70% |
| New York Law School | 13.26% |
| University of the Pacific (McGeorge) | 13.16% |
| Texas Tech University | 12.95% |
| Regent University School of Law | 12.90% |
| University of Arkansas—Little Rock | 12.86% |
| Northern Kentucky University | 12.84% |
| New England Law— Boston | 12.43% |
| University of the District of Columbia | 11.83% |
| Campbell University | 11.80% |
| Suffolk University | 11.76% |
| Syracuse University | 11.17% |
| Georgia State University | 11.05% |
| University of Missouri | 10.87% |
| Duquesne University | 10.81% |
| Mercer University (George) | 10.66% |
| Texas Southern University Law | 10.55% |
| University of South Dakota | 10.53% |
| Southern University Law Center | 10.50% |
| Concordia University School of Law | 10.42% |
| Barry University | 10.29% |
| Northern Illinois University | 10.20% |
| Widener University Delaware | 10.19% |
| University of Idaho | 9.91% |
| Belmont University College of Law | 9.82% |
| Oklahoma City University | 9.82% |
| University of Toledo | 9.78% |
| Texas A&M University | 9.42% |
| Inter American University Law | 9.28% |
| Seattle University | 9.14% |
| University of Akron | 8.81% |
| Southern Illinois University Carbondale | 8.77% |
| Washburn University | 8.77% |
| Charleston School of Law | 8.76% |
| CUNY | 8.60% |
| University of Arkansas—Fayetteville | 8.40% |
| Mississippi College School of Law | 8.40% |
| Cleveland State University | 8.33% |
| University of San Diego | 8.33% |
| Pepperdine University | 8.28% |
| Case Western Reserve University | 8.21% |
| Seton Hall University | 8.12% |
| University of New Hampshire | 8.11% |
| Lincoln Memorial University | 8.00% |
| University of La Verne Law | 7.95% |
| University of Denver (Sturm) | 7.66% |
| Gonzaga University | 7.56% |
| University of Baltimore | 7.54% |
| Western New England University | 7.53% |
| Roger Williams University Law | 7.45% |
| Pace University | 6.85% |
| Santa Clara University | 6.82% |
| Hofstra University (Deane) | 6.80% |
| Albany Law School | 6.67% |
| Creighton University | 6.54% |
| University of Detroit Mercy | 6.54% |
| University of Kansas | 6.54% |
| Brooklyn Law School | 6.50% |
| Michigan State University | 6.39% |
| Chapman University (Fowler) | 5.99% |
| John Marshall Law School | 5.98% |
| Drexel University | 5.96% |
| Pennsylvania State University | 5.88% |
| Catholic University of America | 5.83% |
| Drake University | 5.83% |
| Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago) | 5.68% |
| Quinnipiac University | 5.60% |
| LSU — Baton Rouge (Hebert) | 5.59% |
| Loyola Marymount University | 5.21% |
| Mitchell Hamline | 5.10% |
| University of Oregon | 4.86% |
| Marquette University | 4.84% |
| St. Louis University | 4.76% |
| Samford University (Cumberland) | 4.73% |
| University of South Carolina | 4.65% |
| Arizona State University (O’Connor) | 4.63% |
| University of Nebraska—Lincoln | 4.55% |
| Willamette University (Collins) | 4.55% |
| Loyola University New Orleans | 4.52% |
| University of Puerto Rico | 4.42% |
| University of Tulsa | 4.26% |
| University of Alabama | 4.03% |
| Pontifical Catholic (Puerto Rico) | 4.00% |
| University of California (Hastings) | 3.99% |
| George Mason University | 3.98% |
| Loyola University Chicago | 3.88% |
| Vermont Law School | 3.73% |
| Valparaiso University Law School | 3.57% |
| University of Mississippi | 3.54% |
| University of Maine | 3.53% |
| Stetson University | 3.37% |
| Southern Methodist University | 3.37% |
| University of Illinois Law | 3.27% |
| Yeshiva University (Cardozo) | 3.26% |
| Ohio State University (Moritz) | 3.26% |
| DePaul University | 3.21% |
| Baylor University | 2.99% |
| Brigham Young University (Clark) | 2.97% |
| University of Nevada—Las Vegas | 2.86% |
| University of Louisville (Brandeis) | 2.84% |
| SUNY Buffalo Law School | 2.78% |
| Temple University (Beasley) | 2.69% |
| Washington University at St. Louis | 2.67% |
| University of Kentucky | 2.65% |
| University of California—Davis | 2.65% |
| University of Georgia | 2.65% |
| University of Oklahoma | 2.52% |
| University of Tennessee—Knoxville | 2.44% |
| Washington and Lee University | 2.44% |
| University of California—Los Angeles | 2.38% |
| University of North Carolina | 2.35% |
| Villanova University | 2.29% |
| George Washington University | 2.21% |
| University of Utah (Quinney) | 2.20% |
| University of Hawaii | 2.13% |
| University of Pittsburgh | 2.13% |
| Emory University | 2.10% |
| University of Cincinnati | 2.08% |
| Indiana University—Indianapolis | 2.08% |
| University of Virginia | 1.88% |
| University of Miami | 1.86% |
| Indiana University—Bloomington | 1.85% |
| West Virginia University | 1.83% |
| University of Richmond | 1.74% |
| Rutgers—Newark | 1.73% |
| Florida State University | 1.68% |
| University of Missouri | 1.64% |
| University of Southern California | 1.60% |
| University of Minnesota | 1.53% |
| University of Iowa | 1.53% |
| Tulane University | 1.44% |
| Harvard University | 1.43% |
| University of Wyoming | 1.39% |
| Georgetown University | 1.37% |
| Penn State Dickinson | 1.37% |
| University of St. Thomas | 1.37% |
| Wayne State University | 1.36% |
| University of Florida | 1.33% |
| University of Wisconsin | 1.32% |
| University of California—Berkeley | 1.32% |
| University of California — Irvine | 1.26% |
| University of Arizona | 1.25% |
| University of Michigan | 1.25% |
| Fordham University | 1.22% |
| St. John’s University | 1.20% |
| Stanford University | 1.11% |
| University of Colorado | 1.05% |
| University of Notre Dame | 1.01% |
| University of Maryland | 0.97% |
| New York University | 0.94% |
| University of Pennsylvania | 0.82% |
| Boston College | 0.79% |
| American University (D.C.) | 0.72% |
| University of Connecticut | 0.69% |
| University of Texas—Austin | 0.65% |
| Wake Forest University | 0.64% |
| University of Washington | 0.60% |
| Lewis & Clark Law | 0.59% |
| William and Mary | 0.54% |
| University of Houston | 0.44% |
| Boston University | 0.42% |
| Columbia University | 0.26% |
| University of Chicago | 0.00% |
| Cornell University | 0.00% |
| Duke University | 0.00% |
| University of Montana | 0.00% |
| University of New Mexico | 0.00% |
| University of North Dakota | 0.00% |
| Northeastern University | 0.00% |
| Northwestern University | 0.00% |
| Vanderbilt University | 0.00% |
| Yale University | 0.00% |
Law School Dropout Rates
What is the average attrition rate at law schools?
Law School Dropout Rates In this post, we are going to take a look at dropout rates for law schools. Dropouts are significant because generally, they mean one or both of a couple things: either the student feels him or herself unequal to the challenge presented by the law school environment, or the prospect of mounting debt and a poor employment outlook compel the student to bail out.
In either case, dropouts are left having paid a significant sum for no tangible benefit. Needless to say, in an ideal system there would be few to no dropouts. That isn’t the system we have. Although one part of the law school system, schools with high median LSAT scores, is functioning well, with minimal attrition, the rear of the pack is not.
As law schools generally lowered admissions standards in the decade since the recession, dropout rates increased. Stephanie Ward of the ABA gives us a good breakdown of figures from recent years: At law schools with median LSAT scores between 155 to 159, the average academic attrition rate for the 2014-2015 school year was 2.0 percent.
For the 2015-2016 school year, it was 1.8 percent. For law schools with median LSAT scores between 150 to 154, academic attrition for the 2014-2015 school year averaged out to 4.7 percent, and 4.6 percent for the 2015-2016 school year. At law schools with median LSAT scores below 150 but above 145, academic attrition went from 12.7 percent for the 2014-2015 school year to 14.3 percent for the 2015-2016 school year.
And among law schools where the median LSAT score was 145 or lower, the average academic attrition rate for the 2015-2016 school year was 25.3 percent. Although attrition is apparently stabilizing, these numbers should be of great concern to anyone thinking about attending a lower ranked school.
An LSAT below 150 may be a good indicator that someone is not sufficiently likely to benefit from attending law school, as there is a high chance of getting nothing for the effort. Taking a look at the data below, attrition is minimal through about the top 100 schools, then increases precipitously. Compare this list to our list of, and you’ll see an incredibly strong correlation between lower medians and higher dropout rates.
Though the ABA has failed to take significant action so far, there has been extensive discussion of schools with unacceptably high dropout rates losing accreditation.
| Law School | 1L Dropout Rate % |
|---|---|
| Arizona Summit | 65.31% |
| Florida Coastal School of Law | 38.68% |
| North Carolina Central | 28.92% |
| Thomas Jefferson School of Law | 26.51% |
| University of San Francisco | 23.78% |
| Capital University Law School | 23.27% |
| Widener University | 21.09% |
| Liberty University School of Law | 20.55% |
| Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School | 19.44% |
| Elon University School of Law | 18.84% |
| St. Thomas (Florida) | 17.84% |
| Florida A&M University Law | 17.57% |
| California Western School of Law | 17.49% |
| Ohio Northern University (Pettit) | 17.31% |
| Southwestern Law School | 17.27% |
| University of Dayton | 17.20% |
| Faulkner University | 16.90% |
| Nova Southeastern Law | 16.37% |
| University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth | 16.25% |
| Florida International University | 16.11% |
| University of Memphis (Humphreys) | 15.89% |
| Western State College of Law | 15.85% |
| Ave Maria School of Law | 15.46% |
| Howard University | 15.17% |
| Golden Gate University School of Law | 15.05% |
| Touro College Law Center | 14.69% |
| UNT Dallas | 14.42% |
| St. Mary’s University | 14.09% |
| Western Michigan University (Cooley) | 13.97% |
| South Texas College of Law | 13.85% |
| Appalachian School of Law | 13.70% |
| New York Law School | 13.26% |
| University of the Pacific (McGeorge) | 13.16% |
| Texas Tech University | 12.95% |
| Regent University School of Law | 12.90% |
| University of Arkansas—Little Rock | 12.86% |
| Northern Kentucky University | 12.84% |
| New England Law— Boston | 12.43% |
| University of the District of Columbia | 11.83% |
| Campbell University | 11.80% |
| Suffolk University | 11.76% |
| Syracuse University | 11.17% |
| Georgia State University | 11.05% |
| University of Missouri | 10.87% |
| Duquesne University | 10.81% |
| Mercer University (George) | 10.66% |
| Texas Southern University Law | 10.55% |
| University of South Dakota | 10.53% |
| Southern University Law Center | 10.50% |
| Concordia University School of Law | 10.42% |
| Barry University | 10.29% |
| Northern Illinois University | 10.20% |
| Widener University Delaware | 10.19% |
| University of Idaho | 9.91% |
| Belmont University College of Law | 9.82% |
| Oklahoma City University | 9.82% |
| University of Toledo | 9.78% |
| Texas A&M University | 9.42% |
| Inter American University Law | 9.28% |
| Seattle University | 9.14% |
| University of Akron | 8.81% |
| Southern Illinois University Carbondale | 8.77% |
| Washburn University | 8.77% |
| Charleston School of Law | 8.76% |
| CUNY | 8.60% |
| University of Arkansas—Fayetteville | 8.40% |
| Mississippi College School of Law | 8.40% |
| Cleveland State University | 8.33% |
| University of San Diego | 8.33% |
| Pepperdine University | 8.28% |
| Case Western Reserve University | 8.21% |
| Seton Hall University | 8.12% |
| University of New Hampshire | 8.11% |
| Lincoln Memorial University | 8.00% |
| University of La Verne Law | 7.95% |
| University of Denver (Sturm) | 7.66% |
| Gonzaga University | 7.56% |
| University of Baltimore | 7.54% |
| Western New England University | 7.53% |
| Roger Williams University Law | 7.45% |
| Pace University | 6.85% |
| Santa Clara University | 6.82% |
| Hofstra University (Deane) | 6.80% |
| Albany Law School | 6.67% |
| Creighton University | 6.54% |
| University of Detroit Mercy | 6.54% |
| University of Kansas | 6.54% |
| Brooklyn Law School | 6.50% |
| Michigan State University | 6.39% |
| Chapman University (Fowler) | 5.99% |
| John Marshall Law School | 5.98% |
| Drexel University | 5.96% |
| Pennsylvania State University | 5.88% |
| Catholic University of America | 5.83% |
| Drake University | 5.83% |
| Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago) | 5.68% |
| Quinnipiac University | 5.60% |
| LSU — Baton Rouge (Hebert) | 5.59% |
| Loyola Marymount University | 5.21% |
| Mitchell Hamline | 5.10% |
| University of Oregon | 4.86% |
| Marquette University | 4.84% |
| St. Louis University | 4.76% |
| Samford University (Cumberland) | 4.73% |
| University of South Carolina | 4.65% |
| Arizona State University (O’Connor) | 4.63% |
| University of Nebraska—Lincoln | 4.55% |
| Willamette University (Collins) | 4.55% |
| Loyola University New Orleans | 4.52% |
| University of Puerto Rico | 4.42% |
| University of Tulsa | 4.26% |
| University of Alabama | 4.03% |
| Pontifical Catholic (Puerto Rico) | 4.00% |
| University of California (Hastings) | 3.99% |
| George Mason University | 3.98% |
| Loyola University Chicago | 3.88% |
| Vermont Law School | 3.73% |
| Valparaiso University Law School | 3.57% |
| University of Mississippi | 3.54% |
| University of Maine | 3.53% |
| Stetson University | 3.37% |
| Southern Methodist University | 3.37% |
| University of Illinois Law | 3.27% |
| Yeshiva University (Cardozo) | 3.26% |
| Ohio State University (Moritz) | 3.26% |
| DePaul University | 3.21% |
| Baylor University | 2.99% |
| Brigham Young University (Clark) | 2.97% |
| University of Nevada—Las Vegas | 2.86% |
| University of Louisville (Brandeis) | 2.84% |
| SUNY Buffalo Law School | 2.78% |
| Temple University (Beasley) | 2.69% |
| Washington University at St. Louis | 2.67% |
| University of Kentucky | 2.65% |
| University of California—Davis | 2.65% |
| University of Georgia | 2.65% |
| University of Oklahoma | 2.52% |
| University of Tennessee—Knoxville | 2.44% |
| Washington and Lee University | 2.44% |
| University of California—Los Angeles | 2.38% |
| University of North Carolina | 2.35% |
| Villanova University | 2.29% |
| George Washington University | 2.21% |
| University of Utah (Quinney) | 2.20% |
| University of Hawaii | 2.13% |
| University of Pittsburgh | 2.13% |
| Emory University | 2.10% |
| University of Cincinnati | 2.08% |
| Indiana University—Indianapolis | 2.08% |
| University of Virginia | 1.88% |
| University of Miami | 1.86% |
| Indiana University—Bloomington | 1.85% |
| West Virginia University | 1.83% |
| University of Richmond | 1.74% |
| Rutgers—Newark | 1.73% |
| Florida State University | 1.68% |
| University of Missouri | 1.64% |
| University of Southern California | 1.60% |
| University of Minnesota | 1.53% |
| University of Iowa | 1.53% |
| Tulane University | 1.44% |
| Harvard University | 1.43% |
| University of Wyoming | 1.39% |
| Georgetown University | 1.37% |
| Penn State Dickinson | 1.37% |
| University of St. Thomas | 1.37% |
| Wayne State University | 1.36% |
| University of Florida | 1.33% |
| University of Wisconsin | 1.32% |
| University of California—Berkeley | 1.32% |
| University of California — Irvine | 1.26% |
| University of Arizona | 1.25% |
| University of Michigan | 1.25% |
| Fordham University | 1.22% |
| St. John’s University | 1.20% |
| Stanford University | 1.11% |
| University of Colorado | 1.05% |
| University of Notre Dame | 1.01% |
| University of Maryland | 0.97% |
| New York University | 0.94% |
| University of Pennsylvania | 0.82% |
| Boston College | 0.79% |
| American University (D.C.) | 0.72% |
| University of Connecticut | 0.69% |
| University of Texas—Austin | 0.65% |
| Wake Forest University | 0.64% |
| University of Washington | 0.60% |
| Lewis & Clark Law | 0.59% |
| William and Mary | 0.54% |
| University of Houston | 0.44% |
| Boston University | 0.42% |
| Columbia University | 0.26% |
| University of Chicago | 0.00% |
| Cornell University | 0.00% |
| Duke University | 0.00% |
| University of Montana | 0.00% |
| University of New Mexico | 0.00% |
| University of North Dakota | 0.00% |
| Northeastern University | 0.00% |
| Northwestern University | 0.00% |
| Vanderbilt University | 0.00% |
| Yale University | 0.00% |
Law School Dropout Rates
What is the dropout rate like in law school?
The average drop out rate in law school is around 38%. The average rate of people starting a 4 year degree who do not graduate is about 68%.
What is the LAUSD dropout rate?
We know that LAUSD in 2015 gave 45% of its diploma’s to students with a “D” average. We also know that they spend $15 million a year, a budget item, for “credit recovery”, that is the making up of credits for students so they educate, but they are not dumb and do not waste their time.
- The national drop out rate is 6%–LAUSD is 12%.
- California posted a near all-time high graduation rate — 83 percent for the Class of 2018 — but the rate of students eligible to apply for state universities hasn’t budged, according to data released last week by the California Department of Education.
- In LA Unified, the state’s largest school district, the graduation rate rose to 76.6 percent.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said in a news release that “much work needs to be done to make certain all students graduate and to close the continuing achievement gaps between student groups.” Yes, they are “graduating” more, but still have one fourth unable to even apply to college. California’s graduation rate rises, but there’s no improvement in students’ eligibility for state universities Taylor Swaak, Los Angeles School Report, 11/26/18 California posted a near all-time high graduation rate — 83 percent for the Class of 2018 — but the rate of students eligible to apply for state universities hasn’t budged, according to data released last week by the California Department of Education.
- In LA Unified, the state’s largest school district, the graduation rate rose to 76.6 percent.
- State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said in a news release that “much work needs to be done to make certain all students graduate and to close the continuing achievement gaps between student groups.” The data are typically published in early spring, but the department wanted to ensure the latest information would be ready for next month’s update to the California School Dashboard, the state’s new accountability system.
The dashboard’s update will include 2018 data on a revamped, more user-friendly platform that will be viewable on mobile devices and translated into Spanish. Here are six main takeaways from the new state data:
Graduation rates are up
The Class of 2018’s graduation rate was 83 percent, up from 82.7 percent for the Class of 2017 and considerably higher than the 74.7 percent rate California posted in 2010. LA Unified’s graduation rate for 2018 was 76.6 percent, up from 76.1 percent in 2017, according to the state data.
but only slightly for English learners, poor, black and Latino students.
While graduation rates for most California student groups grew — especially for foster youth — minority groups only made small inroads:
- Black students: A 0.2 percentage point increase in 2018, from 73.1 percent to 73.3 percent.
- Hispanic or Latino students: A 0.3 point increase, from 80.3 percent to 80.6 percent.
- English language learners: A 0.8 point increase, from 67.1 percent to 67.9 percent.
- Poor students: A 0.8 point increase, from 78.8 percent to 79.6 percent
Foster youth graduation rates reached 53.1 percent in 2017-18, compared to 50.8 percent the year prior. White students, however, lost ground, dropping to 87 percent last year from 87.3 percent in 2016-17.
There is no change from last year in college readiness.
Nearly half — 49.9 percent — of the Class of 2018 met admission requirements for the University of California and/or the California State University systems — the same as in 2017. The state reported that for LA Unified students, 61.9 percent met those requirements, up from 59.8 percent in 2016-17.
LA Unified’s school board in June passed a resolution to get 100 percent of students “prepared for college, career and life” by 2023. To boost accountability, it will announce two graduation rates moving forward: the percentage of students who graduated meeting state standards, and the percentage of how many were eligible to apply to state schools.
“We’re raising the bar, being aspirational, and believing on what we can do,” board President Mónica García said at the time, College preparedness struggles in California mirror a nationwide dilemma. A 2017 survey revealed only half of U.S. seniors think their high schools have prepped them for a post-secondary education.
Chronic absences got worse — for nearly every subgroup.
During the 2017-18 year, 11.1 percent of California’s students were “chronically absent,” which the state defines as missing 10 percent, or about 18 days, of the school year. This is up slightly from 10.8 percent in 2016-17 — and tallies to 16,000 more students in 2018 who were chronically out of school.
The state next month is adding chronic absence data to its California School Dashboard, but only for students through eighth grade. It began collecting and reporting chronic absence data from schools and districts for all grades in 2016-17. California’s reported chronic absence rate is hard to compare to the U.S.
average because national data, collected by the Office for Civil Rights, defines chronically absent students as those missing 15 or more days of school. The U.S. average for 2015-16 — the most recent year for which nationwide data is available — was about 16 percent.
California was below the national average at 12.2 percent. LA Unified had an 11.9 percent chronic absence rate in 2017-18, a slight bump from 11.7 percent in 2016-17, according to the state. Of all ethnicities, black students in the district have the highest rate of chronic absences, at 20.9 percent. For all students districtwide, 1 in 4 kindergartners is also chronically absent.
The effects on academics are calamitous when students miss school: Children who are chronically absent in preschool, kindergarten and first grade, for example, are much less likely to read at grade level by third grade, a report last year found. And absences are increasingly expensive.
Enrollments are down, dropouts are up.
Increases in graduation rates contrast with declines in enrollment and growing dropout rates. In California, student enrollment has decreased every year in the past five years except for 2016-17, according to state data. At the same time, its dropout rates are rising.
- The number of 2018 dropouts statewide totaled 48,453 — up nearly 3,500 students from 2017.
- The dropout rate as a result rose from 9.1 percent to 9.6 percent.
- The highest rates were reported for foster, homeless and American Indian or Alaska native students, according to the new data.
- Nationwide, the U.S.
high school dropout rate was 6 percent in 2016. LA Unified is similarly losing thousands of students each year; it’s lost more than 24,000 students in the last two years. Its high school dropout rate as of 2016-17 was 12.2 percent, according to Open Data,
Traditional public schools have higher graduation rates than charters.
When only considering traditional public schools, the state graduation rate hikes to 91.7 percent. “Alternative” schools such as juvenile court and county-run special education schools bring down the overall state rate. Comparatively, independent charter schools have a graduation rate of 84.2 percent, the state data reported.
What is the average income of a high school dropout?
The average high school dropout can expect to earn an annual income of $20,241. This is according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This is compared to $30,627 earned by a high school graduate. If you do your calculations, that is $10,386 less than the typical high school graduate. When you compare the two with a bachelor’s degree holder’s average
What causes students to dropout?
- Financial problems.
- Poor secondary school preparation.
- The student is not sure or convinced with the major.
- Conflict with work and family commitments.
- Increasingly failing courses.
- Lack of quality time with teachers and counsellors.
- De-motivating school environment.
- Lack of student support.