102 law schools, ranked by median grad salary
This is what it says on the tin: every university in Great Britain, ranked by how much its graduates earn five years after leaving with an undergraduate law degree.
The figures come from the government, combining Department of Education data on people’s degrees with data from the taxman on how much the same people are earning five years later. They only cover people who were living in the UK before starting uni — so not international students — and are looking at their first undergraduate degree, not second degrees or law conversion courses or a master’s.
There are also some disclaimers, such as “it should be noted that figures do not control for differences in the characteristics of graduates (e.g. prior attainment) or region of work, and so comparisons should be made with care”.
Yeah, right. Here’s the full list…
Median earnings of law grads five years after graduating — 2016/17
| Rank | Uni | Median salary |
| 1 | Oxford | £67,000 |
| 2 | Cambridge | £58,500 |
| 3 | LSE | £44,700 |
| 4 | Bristol | £42,900 |
| 5 | Durham | £42,100 |
| 6 | Nottingham | £41,800 |
| 7 | Warwick | £41,500 |
| 8 | KCL | £39,300 |
| 9 | UCL | £37,500 |
| 10 | York | £36,400 |
| 11 | Glasgow | £35,100 |
| 12 | Edinburgh | £35,000 |
| 13 | Exeter | £34,700 |
| 14 | Reading | £34,200 |
| 15 | Aberdeen | £33,500 |
| 16 | Leeds | £33,200 |
| 17 | Manchester | £32,800 |
| 18 | Southampton | £32,400 |
| 19 | Birkbeck | £32,100 |
| 20 | Newcastle | £31,900 |
| 21 | East Anglia | £31,700 |
| 22 | SOAS | £31,100 |
| 23 | Strathclyde | £31,000 |
| 24 | Buckingham | £30,800 |
| 25 | Sussex | £30,100 |
| 26 | Queen Mary | £29,800 |
| 27 | Robert Gordon | £29,800 |
| 28 | City | £29,400 |
| 29 | Leicester | £29,400 |
| 30 | Brunel | £29,100 |
| 31 | Dundee | £29,100 |
| 32 | Roehampton | £28,900 |
| 33 | Surrey | £28,800 |
| 34 | Oxford Brookes | £28,300 |
| 35 | Birmingham | £28,300 |
| 36 | Cardiff | £27,700 |
| 37 | Kingston | £27,400 |
| 38 | Open University | £27,200 |
| 39 | Bournemouth | £27,100 |
| 40 | Kent | £27,000 |
| 41 | Sheffield | £26,700 |
| 42 | Brighton | £26,500 |
| 43 | Westminster | £26,200 |
| 44 | Canterbury Christ Church | £26,100 |
| 45 | Glasgow Caledonian | £26,000 |
| 46 | Portsmouth | £25,600 |
| 47 | Edinburgh Napier | £25,200 |
| 48 | Essex | £25,100 |
| 49 | Lancaster | £24,900 |
| 50 | Cumbria | £24,900 |
| 51 | Liverpool | £24,800 |
| 52 | Stirling | £24,800 |
| 53 | Buckinghamshire New | £24,700 |
| 54 | Nottingham Trent | £24,700 |
| 55 | Greenwich | £24,300 |
| 56 | Northumbria | £24,000 |
| 57 | West of England | £24,000 |
| 58 | St Mary’s | £23,800 |
| 59 | Chester | £23,400 |
| 60 | Staffordshire | £23,100 |
| 61 | Hertfordshire | £23,100 |
| 62 | Hull | £23,100 |
| 63 | Anglia Ruskin | £23,000 |
| 64 | Gloucestershire | £23,000 |
| 65 | Plymouth | £23,000 |
| 66 | London South Bank | £22,900 |
| 67 | Southampton Solent | £22,900 |
| 68 | Salford | £22,900 |
| 69 | Keele | £22,800 |
| 70 | Abertay Dundee | £22,800 |
| 71 | Winchester | £22,700 |
| 72 | Coventry | £22,500 |
| 73 | Sheffield Hallam | £22,500 |
| 74 | West of Scotland | £22,500 |
| 75 | Bangor | £22,400 |
| 76 | Croydon College | £22,300 |
| 77 | Leeds Beckett | £22,200 |
| 78 | Liverpool John Moores | £22,200 |
| 79 | West London | £22,100 |
| 80 | De Montfort | £22,000 |
| 81 | Manchester Metropolitan | £21,900 |
| 82 | Aberystwyth | £21,900 |
| 83 | Middlesex | £21,500 |
| 84 | Swansea | £21,500 |
| 85 | South Wales | £21,500 |
| 86 | Sunderland | £21,400 |
| 87 | Northampton | £21,300 |
| 88 | Birmingham City | £21,300 |
| 89 | Lincoln | £21,200 |
| 90 | Derby | £21,100 |
| 91 | East London | £20,800 |
| 92 | Bedfordshire | £20,600 |
| 93 | Teesside | £20,500 |
| 94 | London Metropolitan | £20,300 |
| 95 | Edge Hill | £20,100 |
| 96 | Central Lancashire | £19,900 |
| 97 | Huddersfield | £19,900 |
| 98 | Wolverhampton | £19,200 |
| 99 | Bradford | £19,000 |
| 100 | Bolton | £18,500 |
| 101 | Bradford College | £17,800 |
| 102 | Blackburn College | £14,900 |