The 11 Law Schools With The Worst Employment Rates

Just 85.6 percent of law students who earned a law degree in 2011 were employed nine months later. It's the lowest rate of employment since 1994.

For those graduates lucky enough to find themselves employed, only 55 percent of them secured "full-time, long-term jobs" that require a law degree.

And yet the law schools keep churning out students ...

We've identified some of the schools with the highest rates of unemployment and underemployment, based on data from the Wall Street Journal. We also looked at the percentage of students who passed the bar exam the first time and compared it to the average state bar passage rates.

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This is part of our comprehensive ranking of The Best Law Schools in America.

#11 Western New England University School of Law, Springfield, Mass.

Unemployed, seeking employment: 20.92%

Employed in jobs requiring a JD: 30%

Passed the bar exam the first time: 66%

Average State Bar Passage Rate: 88%

Tuition: $38,116

Methodology: Tuition represented does not include the cost of living. The employment statistics represent law students from the graduating classes of 2011 nine months after graduation. Data was collected from the Wall Street Journal and the American Bar Association/Law School Admissions Council.

#10 University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Ore.

Unemployed, seeking employment: 21.26%

Employed in jobs requiring a JD: 41%

Passed the bar exam the first time: 75%

Average State Bar Passage Rate: 75%

Tuition: $28,348 for Oregon residents; $35,368 for non-residents

Methodology: Tuition represented does not include the cost of living. The employment statistics represent law students from the graduating classes of 2011 nine months after graduation. Data was collected from the Wall Street Journal and the American Bar Association/Law School Admissions Council.

#9 Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, Calif.

Unemployed, seeking employment: 23.14%

Employed in jobs requiring a JD: 43%

Passed the bar exam the first time: 87%

Average State Bar Passage Rate: 72%

Tuition: $44,920

Methodology: Tuition represented does not include the cost of living. The employment statistics represent law students from the graduating classes of 2011 nine months after graduation. Data was collected from the Wall Street Journal and the American Bar Association/Law School Admissions Council.

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