Why the extra step?

Law school consumer information—especially its accuracy—has been the focus of transparency advocates and a number of powerful U.S. senators in recent years

but . . . .

By striking the salary data, the council has brought the accreditation requirements in line with changes already made by the ABA's questionnaire committee—a separate group that designs the questionnaire that all accredited law schools must fill out every year. The questionnaire committee decided last year that instead of school-specific salary data, schools should disclose the three states in which the largest percentage of their graduates found jobs. Prospective students or other interested parties could then look at state-specific salary information.

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