Career Services

Statistics

Nine Months After Graduation

Of the 214 graduates known to be seeking employment, 203 (94.8%) were sucessful within 9 months of graduation.

Total number of graduates	239
Number whose employment status was unknown	9	3.8%
Number reporting employment status	230	96.2%
- Number unemployed and seeking work	11	4.8%
- Number not seeking work	12	5.2%
- Number pursuing an advanced degree fulltime	4	1.7%
- Number employed	203	88.3%

Of those employed, the jobs they had fell into the following categories:

Job requiring bar passage	176	86.7%	(4 part-time)
Job where J.D. is preferred	9	4.4%	(1 part-time)
Other professional	9	4.4%	(2 part-time)
Other non-professional	5	2.5%
Job type unknown	4	1.9%

Salary Information

Salary information was reported by 42% of our employed graduates in the Class of 2010. The starting salaries ranged from a minimum of $38,400 to a maximum of $160,000.

Salary Ranges by Sector	25th Percentile	Median	75th Percentile	Mean
Total Employed	$55,000	$80,000	$124,000	$91,393
Private Sector	$71,000	$107,500	$141,250	$104,432
Public Sector	$50,000	$55,000	$60,000	$60,100

Employment By Region

UNC School of Law participates in approximately 30 off-campus interview programs around the country, including Minority job fairs in Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, and Richmond, patent law fairs in Chicago and Atlanta, and a major public interest job fair in Washington D.C. Carolina Law manages off-campus interview programs in Atlanta, Dallas, New York City and Washington D.C., as well as two small-firm job fairs in North Carolina.

New England CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT	0.5%
Mid-Atlantic NJ, NY, PA	9.3%
East North Central IL, IN, MI, OH, WI	2.1%
West North Central IA, KS, MN, MO, ND, SD	0.5%
South Atlantic DE, DC, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV	77.2%
East South Central AL, KY, MS, TN	2.6%
West South Central AR, LA, OK, TX	2.6%
Mountain AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY	2.1%
Pacific AK, CA, HI, OR, WA	2.1%
Foreign	1.0%

Total number of graduates	239
Employed 9 months after graduation	95%
Employed in North Carolina	53%
Employed out-of-state	47%
Private practice	47%
Public interest or government	22%
Judicial clerkships	15%
Business/corporate counsel	13%
Academic	2%