Process PDF reports of employment outcomes for recent graduates of ABA-accredited law schools.
Law schools accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) publish in a standardized PDF format reports of employment outcomes for recent graduates. Use the law_school_outcomes ruby library to process these PDF files into memory for further use.
gem install law_school_outcomesIf using a Gemfile: insert gem 'law_school_outcomes' then run bundle install.
Google search [SCHOOL NAME] EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY FOR [year] GRADUATES to find an Employment Summary Report hosted in PDF format. Note its url and year.
Given the report's url and year, read its contents into memory:
require 'law_school_outcomes'
report = LawSchoolOutcomes::EmploymentSummaryReport.new(year: 2015, url: "http://www.law.my-university.edu/some-random-path/some-report.pdf")
report.school_info
#> {:name=>"MY UNIVERSITY", :address=>{:street=>"123 MAIN STREET", :city=>"MY CITY", :state=>"ZZ", :zip=>"10101"}, :phone=>"123-456-7890", :website=>"http://www.law.my-university.edu/"}
report.total_grads #> 465
report.employment_status_results
#> [{:status=>"Employed - Bar Passage Required", :count=>310},
# {:status=>"Employed - J.D. Advantage", :count=>65},
# {:status=>"Employed - Professional Position", :count=>6},
# {:status=>"Employed - Non-Professional Position", :count=>1},
# {:status=>"Employed - Law School/University Funded", :count=>38},
# {:status=>"Employed - Undeterminable", :count=>0},
# {:status=>"Pursuing Graduate Degree Full Time", :count=>7},
# {:status=>"Unemployed - Start Date Deferred", :count=>3},
# {:status=>"Unemployed - Not Seeking", :count=>4},
# {:status=>"Unemployed - Seeking", :count=>30},
# {:status=>"Employment Status Unknown", :count=>1
# }]
report.employment_type_results
#> [{:type=>"Law Firms (Solo)", :count=>0},
# {:type=>"Law Firms (2 - 10)", :count=>34},
# {:type=>"Law Firms (11 - 25)", :count=>11},
# {:type=>"Law Firms (26 - 50)", :count=>6},
# {:type=>"Law Firms (51 - 100)", :count=>14},
# {:type=>"Law Firms (101 - 250)", :count=>15},
# {:type=>"Law Firms (251 - 500)", :count=>25},
# {:type=>"Law Firms (501 +)", :count=>109},
# {:type=>"Law Firms (Unknown Size)", :count=>1},
# {:type=>"Business & Industry", :count=>51},
# {:type=>"Government", :count=>79},
# {:type=>"Pub. Int.", :count=>40},
# {:type=>"Clerkships - Federal", :count=>16},
# {:type=>"Clerkships - State & Local", :count=>13},
# {:type=>"Clerkships - Other", :count=>2},
# {:type=>"Education", :count=>4},
# {:type=>"Employer Type Unknown", :count=>0}]
report.employment_location_results
#> [{:type=>"State - Largest Employment",
# :location=>"District Of Columbia",
# :count=>"221"},
# {:type=>"State - 2nd Largest Employment",
# :location=>"New York",
# :count=>"58"},
# {:type=>"State - 3rd Largest Employment",
# :location=>"Virginia",
# :count=>"32"},
# {:type=>"Employed in Foreign Countries",
# :location=>"Employed in Foreign Countries",
# :count=>8}]
report.results
#> etc ...