Graduate Employment & Careers

Grads sue Brooklyn Law School, charging school fudged employment stats 
Brooklyn Law School grads charge in a lawsuit that the school fudged post-graduate employment stats and misled them into sinking cash into expensive degrees.

AUSSIE COMPANIES EMPLOYING MORE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
MELBOURNE, Feb 5 (Bernama) --There was a significant increase in the numberof Australian companies recruiting international graduates last year. A survey of graduate employment outcomes revealed that about 30.8 percent ofemployers with graduate programmes took on foreign students, compared to 20.5percent in 2009. The Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) report noted that the rise was almost areturn ...

John Marshall grads sue school over employment statistics
Three graduates of John Marshall Law School in Chicago sued the university Wednesday over claims that it inflated its post-graduate employment information to attract students.

John Marshall grads sue over employment stats
Three graduates of John Marshall Law School in Chicago sued the university Wednesday over claims that it inflated its post-graduate employment information to attract students.

UL graduate employment levels on the up
MORE than 84% of UL graduates are either employed or pursuing further study. according to a recent survey. This is an increase of 5% on the previous year. The figures were released as part of the Graduate Employment Survey as 1,600 students graduated in the past week, including 77 PhD students. Don Barry, UL president, said the university has consistently recorded an employment rate higher than ...

Law Grads Sue Law Schools over Skewed Employment Figures
Law school alums facing a tough job market are suing their alma maters. At least 15 individual class action law suits have been filed by a total of 73 law school grads who allege that the schools falsely inflated graduate employment rates. The suits allege the schools inflated the data, in part, by employing their own graduates in temporary jobs and counting graduates working in non-legal ...

A Dozen Law Schools Hit with Lawsuits over Jobs Data
The number of lawsuits accusing law schools of twisting post-graduate employment data has quintupled.

Scott Janssen: A 2012 College Graduate Guide to Employment
There has been plenty of coverage of America's economic downturn in recent years but there has been one glaring hole: the perspective of the recent college graduate attempting to wade through such uncertainty.

More international grads find jobs - survey
THE number of Australian employers recruiting international graduates increased substantially in 2011.

Graduates sue local law schools over job data
How many consumer decisions are made based on a pitch, a testimonial or a company claim? Law schools use post-graduate employment numbers to attract students--and those statistics have gotten some schools in trouble. Chicago's John Marshall Law School is among more than a dozen facing class action lawsuits claiming they used inflated job numbers to get more people to enroll. Staci Zaretsky, an ...