Employment Numbers

Yikes...how law schools lie about their employment numbers.

Campos looked at "employment data drawn from 183 individual [National Association for Law Placement] forms, in which graduates of one top 50 school self-reported their employment status nine months after graduation," and found that "fully one-third of those graduates who report they are working in full-time jobs that require a law degree are in temporary, rather than permanent, positions." (Go to the link if you want to know how he dealt with judicial clerkships, which are temporary, but usually excellent jobs.) Counting temporary and permanent jobs, only 45% had "real legal jobs." Drop below the "top 50," and the percentages are almost certainly worse.

I'm sure film schools are actually much worse in this regard. Someone ought to do a study. USC said 75% of their graduates work in the industry, but like the above article, they really ought to do a sample that distinguishes the level of work, ie jobs you could do without having gone to film school...it would also be interesting to track 9 months out, 3 years out, 5 years out, etc.