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Report: Many Emory Law Students Underemployed After Graduation

Nine months after graduation, 18.4 percent of former students were unemployed or underemployed.

Many Emory Law students are struggling to find full employment after graduation, according to a recently released report. It's part of a larger trend that reveals a bleak job market for many graduates of even the nation's most prestigious law schools.

Nine months after graduation, 18.4 percent of the No. 23-ranked law school's graduates were unemployed or stuck in short-term, part-time or non-professional jobs last year, according to a blog about the report in The Atlantic. Many law schools ranked between No. 15 and No. 25 had similar underemployment rates.

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In the end, though, the numbers are still bad no matter how you define the "good schools." Only 31 institutions had an underemployment rate under 15 percent. Just 66, or less than a third, have an underemployment rate below 20 percent.* And in some cases, the numbers actually obscure just how tough the market is. Many schools have taken to hiring their own graduates, or funding fellowships for them to help smooth their transition into the working world. One of the big reasons the University of Virginia has the lowest underemployment ranking is that 15 percent of its graduates are in jobs funded by the school. That's a heck of a lot better than leaving them out to dry, and some of those fellowships, which include jobs on Capitol Hill and with nonprofits, will likely lead to bigger and better opportunities. But it gives you a sense of the challenges grads -- and their schools -- are facing.

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Emory Law recently bumped up one spot on the national rankings to No. 23 in U.S. News & World Report.


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