Employment Statistics

How do we go about ensuring that the right practice opportunities will be there for our graduates? Targeted, sustained outreach with leading employers across all employment sectors, and personalized individual work with each student.

We focus on the future of law, making sure we are abreast of a rapidly changing professional environment by regularly meeting with employers across all sectors, keeping them informed about developments at the School of Law and our students’ qualifications, and listening to what they need from new grads to ensure we incorporate the development of those skills into our students’ law school experience.

We partner with each student from day one. Our professional attorney-advisors, all of whom are JDs, have deep practice experience and offer expert guidance to help students be practice-ready in whatever employment sectors they want to pursue.

BU Law’s employment outcomes reflect the law school’s longstanding commitment to preparing graduates for meaningful, successful legal careers. Recent ABA reporting places BU Law’s class of 2025 among the top law schools nationally for full-time, long-term legal employment—an important measure of graduate success and professional readiness.

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#13 Go-To Law Schools: Big Law

Law.com ranked BU Law #13 in the nation based on the percentage of 2025 graduates who took associate jobs at the largest 100 law firms.

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#8 Highest Debt-Salary Ratio Among 2024 Graduates

U.S. News & World Report ranked law schools with the highest debt-salary ratios among 2024 graduates, and BU Law ranked in the top 10. Median starting salary for our graduates is $225,000.

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