Excellent news for School of Law students on earnings

In the summer of 2017 the UK's Department for Education released data on the earnings of university students five years after graduation. The Economist newspaper analysed the data and produced a league table which was designed to try to show the best "value added" programmes ie which universities and departments do most to boost earnings controlling for a range of factors. The School of Law is delighted that it finished second among all Russell Group law schools on this measure.

Leading Russell Group Law Schools for "Value Added"

1. University of Oxford
2. University of Nottingham
3. University of Cambridge
4. University College London
5. Warwick University

In the words of the Economist: "Our estimate of expected earnings is built from a statistical model that predicts wages based on the subjects people study, their exam results at school, age, family income, whether they went to private or state school and where the university was located."

It goes on to say that: "The difference between the predicted and actual amounts that students earn [the 'value added'] ought to reflect a university's impact on graduate wages."