West Virginia 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 Graduates152100%
Unknown Status10.7%
Known Status15199.3%
FT Degree117.2%
Unemployed42.6%
Employed13689.5%
Credentials#% of Class
Bar Passage Req.10166.4%
Full Time9965.1%
Part Time21.3%
J.D. Preferred138.6%
Full Time127.9%
Part Time10.7%
Professional63.9%
Full Time53.3%
Part Time10.7%
Non-Professional32%
Full Time32%
Part Time00%
Unknown Cred.138.6%
Total Employed13689.5%
Non-Employed1610.5%
Employer Type#% of Class
Academic32%
Business3623.7%
Government53.3%
Federal Clerkship53.3%
Other Clerkship117.2%
Law Firm7146.7%
Public Interest42.6%
Unknown Type10.7%
Total Employed13689.5%
Non-Employed1610.5%
Location#% of Class
East North Central53.3%
East South Central32%
Mid Atlantic117.2%
Mountain32%
New England00%
Pacific00%
South Atlantic11173%
West North Central10.7%
West South Central21.3%
Foreign00%
Unknown00%
Total Employed13689.5%
Non-Employed1610.5%
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