California Western School of Law

What are the graduation rates for students at California Western School of Law?

The undergraduate four-year and six-year graduation rates often displayed for colleges are not suitable measures of California Western's J.D. program. The school's outcomes are better evaluated through law-school disclosures showing degrees awarded, academic attrition, transfers, and bar-examination results.

These measures answer different questions. Attrition concerns students who leave before graduating; a bar-passage measure concerns graduates who take a particular examination; and neither is interchangeable with the percentage of an entering J.D. class that earns a degree on schedule. Applicants comparing law schools should use the same disclosure year and population for each measure and pay attention to results for both first-time and repeat bar takers.

What is the earning potential for graduates at California Western School of Law?

No single salary figure describes what a California Western graduate can expect to earn. Legal pay varies substantially by job type, employer, geography, experience, and whether a graduate obtains a position requiring bar admission.

For a more useful comparison, applicants can examine the school's ABA employment disclosure for the number of graduates employed about ten months after graduation and the categories of jobs they held. Employment status is not salary: a position in a small practice, public-interest organization, government office, or large firm may have very different compensation. Published starting-salary information, when available, may also cover only graduates whose salaries were reported, rather than an entire class.