-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Southwestern Law School fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (0.3% → 0.0%).
California · Private nonprofit · Predominantly graduate
Southwestern Law School
Los Angeles, California. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Southwestern Law School
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. California
Each tile compares this institution to the California median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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California median $42,588—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry—
California median 61.3%—±0% · '09→'10
At program completion—
latest IPEDS—
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Median federal student debt at exit.
-100%
Southwestern Law School · cohort default rate fell
2.6% → 0.0%
+46%
Southwestern Law School · earnings_median_8yr rose
$61,000 → $89,000
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
1 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
LEGAL PROFESSIONS · CIP 22
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in California
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Southwestern Law School graduates earn $X” — not “Southwestern Law School makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Southwestern Law School caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.