Saturday, April 9, 2016
Percentage of job seekers who secured tenure-track jobs, by school
MOVING TO FRONT FROM MARCH 17--IF YOU'VE BEEN HIRED, PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR INFORMATION AT THE PRAWFS BLOG LINK, BELOW
As Prof. Lawsky collects the data on entry-level hiring, bear in mind that the total number of graduates on the teaching market varies considerably by school; once all the hiring results are in, I'll post the percentage success rates. But here are the total number of graduates by school that were on the market this year: 45 from Harvard; 42 from Yale; 29 from Georgetown; 29 from NYU; 21 from Columbia; 19 from Stanford; 16 from Berkeley; 12 from Chicago; 12 from Virginia; 10 from Northwestern; 9 from Michigan; 6 from Duke; 5 from Penn; 5 from Cornell; 5 from UCLA; 3 from Southern California; 3 from Texas. I know that 75% of the Chicago grads on the teaching market secured a tenure-track job; I'll post the final listing in a couple of weeks.
4/9/16 UPDATE: So as I surmised awhile back, we seem to be closing in on about eighty tenure-track hires this year, compared to about 65 the last two years. Based on the data so far, here's how the placement looks for the preceding schools that had at least two placements (the data is not yet complete, however; it counts only JD placements, though some of the gross numbers, above, include some LLM or SJDs, though those appear to be distributed across the schools with the biggest numbers--I'll fix that in the final count when Prof. Lawsky is done collecting the data):
Chicago: 6 of 12 candidates secured tenure-track jobs (50%)
UCLA: 2 of 5 candidates secured tenure-track jobs (40%)
Yale 17 of 42 candidates secured tenure-track jobs (40%)
Stanford: 7 of 19 candidates secured tenure-track jobs (37%)
Michigan: 3 of 9 candidates secured tenure-track jobs (33%)
Columbia: 6 of 21 candidates secured tenure-track jobs (29%)
Harvard: 11 of 45 candidates secured tenure-track jobs (24%)
NYU: 7 of 29 candidates secured tenure-track jobs (24%)
Virginia: 3 of 12 candidates secured tenure-track jobs (25%)
Berkeley: 2of 16 candidates secured tenure-track jobs (13%)
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2016/04/percentage-of-job-seekers-who-secure-tenure-track-jobs-by-school.html