These law schools had the highest percentage of employed students not using their degrees
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Two law schools in Puerto Rico top a list of schools that produced the largest percentage of graduates who aren’t using their law degrees in their jobs.
The schools were ranked based on the percentage of their employed grads who don’t have positions in which passing the bar is required or having a JD is an advantage. StartClass created the list using ABA data on students who graduated between Sept. 1, 2013, and Aug. 31, 2014. Its findings are reprinted by the Arizona Daily Star.
StartClass names 25 law schools with the highest percentage of underemployed grads. The top 10 are:
1) Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Law (51.3 percent aren’t using their degree—meaning bar passage isn’t required in their jobs or having a JD is not an advantage in their jobs)
2) Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law (45.5 percent aren’t using their degree)
3) Florida A&M University College of Law (29 percent aren’t using their degree)
4) Duncan School of Law, Lincoln Memorial University (27.9 percent aren’t using their degree)
5) University of Puerto Rico School of Law (25.4 percent aren’t using their degree)
6) Appalachian School of Law (23.9 percent aren’t using their degree)
7) Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School (23.3 percent aren’t using their degree)
8) Widener University School of Law (Wilmington) (22.2 percent aren’t using their degree)
9) Thomas Jefferson School of Law (21.7 percent aren’t using their degree)
10) Widener University School of Law (Harrisburg) (21.2 percent aren’t using their degree)
