Southern Methodist University Profile

Class of 2009 Employment Outcomes

These data come exclusively from U.S. News because the magazine provided the best publicly available employment information for this year. Now that schools are more transparent, and the ABA has stepped its game up, we no longer need to rely on a for-profit magazine to get prospective students the information they need to make informed decisions. Prior years of school-specific data are not directly comparable because U.S. News did not publish survey response rates.

Number% of Class
Total Graduates307100%
Unknown Status00%
Known Status307100%
FT Degree144.6%
Unemployed196.2%
Employed27489.3%
Credentials#% of Class
Bar Passage Req.23375.9%
Full Time22673.6%
Part Time72.3%
J.D. Preferred165.2%
Full Time134.2%
Part Time41.3%
Professional165.2%
Full Time154.9%
Part Time10.3%
Non-Professional51.6%
Full Time31%
Part Time31%
Unknown Cred.31%
Total Employed27489.3%
Non-Employed3310.7%
Employer Type#% of Class
Academic31%
Business5216.9%
Government196.2%
Federal Clerkship113.6%
Other Clerkship00%
Law Firm18660.6%
Public Interest31%
Unknown Type00%
Total Employed27489.3%
Non-Employed3310.7%
Location#% of Class
East North Central31%
East South Central10.3%
Mid Atlantic10.3%
Mountain10.3%
New England00%
Pacific10.3%
South Atlantic62%
West North Central00%
West South Central26084.7%
Foreign00%
Unknown00%
Total Employed27489.3%
Non-Employed3310.7%
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