What job crisis?
Columbia Law School managed to get 99 percent of its graduates a gig within nine months of leaving — the top rate among law schools nationally, according to the latest grad-school rankings by The Princeton Review.
Median earnings for the roughly 450 legal eagles who flew the school’s Morningside Heights coop last year was a sky-high $160,000.
The law school — where tuition runs more than $51,000 per year — clawed its way to the top perch in the category “Best Career Prospects” from a third-place ranking last year, after not even cracking the top 10 the year before.
“It’s a great showing that Columbia has focused on this very practical outcome for their students,” said Rob Franek, senior VP and publisher at The Princeton Review. “[Students] are there because they’re making sure they get a job in their field when they graduate.”
NYU’s School of Law in Greenwich Village got 96 percent of its 2011 graduates hired within nine months, at a not-too-shabby $145,000 median pay — good enough for fifth place among law schools.
This was a drop from its third-place spot two years ago.
Tuition at NYU’s law school — which was also tagged as seventh most liberal nationally and with the 10th best quality of life — is roughly $49,000 a year.
The only other local law school to make one of the top-10 lists was CUNY School of Law in Queens, which ranked 10th in the category “Best Professors.”
Professors at Duke University School of Law were rated the best in the country, and students at Baylor Law School were the most competitive.
Students at Northeastern’s School of Law in Boston were deemed the most liberal, while those at Ave Maria in Michigan were perceived as the most conservative.
The rankings will appear in the 2013 editions of Princeton Review’s “Best 168 Law Schools” and “Best 296 Business Schools,” which are being published today.
Among B-schools, Stanford University was best at securing gigs for its graduates — with a 92 percent success rate within three months of graduation.
Median salary for those jobs was $127,000.
Columbia Business School ranked fifth nationally, with jobs averaging $113,000 — just over twice its $56,000 yearly tuition — while NYU’s Stern School of Business ranked a respectable ninth.
Its graduates, who pay about $48,000 a year in tuition, earned $106,000 on average in their first job placements.
Among other local schools, Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business got props for creating opportunities for minority students at its Bronx campus — a category in which it ranked eighth nationally.
In other areas, the Tuck School of Business at New Hampshire’s Dartmouth College was tops for being family-friendly, while UCLA’s Anderson School of Management in California earned the top spot for a great campus environment.