United States as ranked by U.S. News & World Report Princeton Review "Best 170 Law Schools" (2008) – number 22 overall among law schools for average starting salary The Census Group Composition ranking, which scores law schools based on selectivity, salary, placement and yield, ranks Santa Clara Law at Number 64. Hylton Rankings, which scores programs based on their U.S. News & World Report peer assessment ratings provided by law professors and by the mean LSAT scores of each law school, ranked Santa Clara Law at Number 78 overall. Listed Number 13 overall for mid-career median salary (at $188,000 a year) in Forbes list of Best Law Schools for Getting Rich Graded as "B−" in the January 2011 "Best Public Interest Law Schools" listing by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students Graded as "A" in the March 2011 "Diversity Honor Roll" by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students Its journal, Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal, is ranked #6 nationally for intellectual property. Bar passage rates Based on a 2001–2007 six-year average, 73% of Santa Clara University Law graduates passed the California State Bar. Post-graduation employment According to Santa Clara's official 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 42.2% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners. Santa Clara Law's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 34.5%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2013 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation. Law School Transparency reports a 41.3% employment score for the Class of 2011. According to the American Bar Association's "Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools," 94.5 percent of Santa Clara students were employed nine months after graduation, with 77 percent of graduates employed in the private sector and 21 percent employed in the public sector. According to the Princeton Review, the average private-sector starting salary for Santa Clara Law graduates in 2020 is $100,000. According to Forbes magazine, mid-career median salary is currently $188,000 a year. According to a study done by online salary-information company PayScale, graduates of Santa Clara Law have the third highest midcareer median salary among all graduate programs in the United States. The report found that Santa Clara Law graduates typically make $76,900 the first year following graduation and attain a midcareer median salary of $197,700. Costs The total cost of attendance (indicating