BYU Law School Ranked #1 for ROI

ABA Journal ~ January 25, 2017

If you want to earn a top salary as a lawyer, it’s a good idea to attend law school at Cornell, Columbia, New York University, the University of Chicago or Harvard.

But if you want the best return on investment (ROI), Brigham Young University and the University of Texas at Austin are good law-school choices, the New York Times DealBook blog reports.

At Brigham Young, tuition is only $12,000 for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, while graduates seeking debt refinancing earn an average of $108,916. In-state tuition at the University of Texas is $34,000 a year, while graduates seeking debt refinancing earned an average of $105,254.

The findings (PDF) are based on an analysis of more than 60,000 student loan refinancing applications from January 2014 to December 2016. The applicants, on average, had worked for three years after graduation. Student loan refinance company SoFi conducted the study.
Here are the 10 law schools with the best graduate salaries relative to student debt:

1. Brigham Young University
2. University of Texas at Austin
3. Yale University
4. University of Houston
5. University of Georgia
6. Harvard University
7. Stanford University
8. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9. University of Connecticut
10. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill