Government data reveals vast pay gap among LLB holders
New research has revealed that University of Oxford law graduates are earning an average salary of £61,500, firing them to the top of the law school earnings table.
The government statistics show that those who studied at Oxford take home, on average, £61,500 five years post-graduation. Hot on their tails are law graduates from the University of Cambridge, who earn a median salary of £54,500 — a full £7,000 less than their Oxbridge rivals.
Rounding off the podium positions is the London School of Economics, from which law grads pocket around £47,500 at the same point in their careers.
But there are a few surprises in the department of education research. The stats — which focus on students who graduated between 2008 and 2009 — suggest that law students who studied at the Open University (£30,000) go on to earn more than those who studied at the University of Leeds (£27,000) and the University of Liverpool (£24,500), both of which are Russell Group members.
Sitting at the foot of the table is the University of Bradford. The data shows that five years post-graduation Bradford’s alumni take home a median salary of just £17,500. Emphasising the vast earnings gap among law graduates, that equates to a whopping £44,000 less than their Oxford counterparts.
Sitting just above Bradford is the University of Bedfordshire (£18,000), the University of Derby (£18,500), and the University of Wolverhampton (£19,500).
The results in full
| UNIVERSITY | AVERAGE LAW GRAD PAY FIVE YEARS AFTER GRADUATING |
|---|---|
| Oxford | £61,500 |
| Cambridge | £54,500 |
| LSE | £47,500 |
| UCL | £47,000 |
| Warwick | £41,500 |
| Durham | £40,500 |
| Nottingham | £38,000 |
| Bristol | £37,500 |
| King’s College London | £37,000 |
| Manchester | £35,500 |
| Exeter | £34,500 |
| Sussex | £34,000 |
| Southampton | £33,000 |
| Queen Mary | £31,500 |
| Birmingham | £30,500 |
| Newcastle | £30,500 |
| Surrey | £30,500 |
| Birkbeck | £30,000 |
| UEA | £30,000 |
| Open University | £30,000 |
| Oxford Brookes | £30,000 |
| Reading | £29,500 |
| Brunel | £28,000 |
| Sheffield | £28,000 |
| Kent | £27,500 |
| City | £27,000 |
| Leeds | £27,000 |
| Leicester | £26,500 |
| Essex | £26,000 |
| Canterbury Christchurch | £25,500 |
| Gloucestershire | £25,500 |
| Northumbria | £25,500 |
| Portsmouth | £25,000 |
| Westminster | £25,000 |
| Bournemouth | £24,500 |
| Liverpool | £24,500 |
| West London | £24,500 |
| Greenwich | £24,000 |
| Kingston | £24,000 |
| Lancaster | £24,000 |
| UWE | £24,000 |
| Anglia Ruskin | £23,500 |
| Keele | £23,500 |
| Nottingham Trent | £23,500 |
| Hull | £23,000 |
| Sheffield Hallam | £22,500 |
| Hertfordshire | £22,000 |
| Central Lancashire | £21,500 |
| Coventry | £21,500 |
| Liverpool John Moores | £21,500 |
| Manchester Met | £21,500 |
| Plymouth | £21,500 |
| Chester | £21,000 |
| East London | £21,000 |
| Leeds Beckett | £21,000 |
| London South Bank | £21,000 |
| Northampton | £21,000 |
| Southampton Solent | £21,000 |
| Staffordshire | £21,000 |
| Sunderland | £21,000 |
| Teeside | £20,500 |
| De Monfort | £20,000 |
| Huddersfield | £20,000 |
| Lincoln | £20,000 |
| London Met | £20,000 |
| Middlesex | £20,000 |
| Birmingham City | £19,500 |
| Buckinghamshire | £19,500 |
| Edge Hill | £19,500 |
| Wolverhampton | £19,500 |
| Derby | £18,500 |
| Bedfordshire | £18,000 |
| Bradford | £17,500 |