Creighton Law’s ten-month employment rate sits near 69%, a number that could describe a solid regional pipeline or a soft market wearing makeup, depending entirely on what is inside it. The inside is published. The ABA makes every school disclose the breakdown, and reading it takes ten minutes that most applicants never spend.
MetricFigureContextEmployment rate (10 months)~69%All categories combinedPrimary placementOmaha and NebraskaWhere the pipeline pointsNetwork strengthOmaha market, Jesuit missionStrongest for matching plans
Taken literally: ten months after graduation, 69% of the class had a job, any kind, any duration, any funder. The figure that should drive your decision is narrower: full-time, long-term, bar-passage-required employment as a share of all graduates, because that category and only that category means practicing law. The rest of the blend, part-time, JD-advantage, school-funded, is context worth reading and discounting.
This is not Creighton Law being evasive; it is the standard format every school reports in, which is exactly why the ABA requires a disclosure that lets you take the blend apart.
Treat the employment summary as a four-line audit. Line one: full-time, long-term, bar-required, divided by the whole class, because that ratio is the product. Line two: school-funded roles, listed separately for a reason; net them out to see market demand. Line three: JD-advantage, a category that blends ambition and consolation, weigh it lightly. Line four: geography, because every job in the table has an address and so will your life. Four lines, ten minutes, and the marketing becomes accounting.
Withheld Tip: compare the same school’s 509 across two or three years before trusting any single one. One strong year is a cohort; three is a pipeline. Trendlines are harder to stage than snapshots.
Placement is not a prize the school hands you at graduation, it is the compounding result of market fit chosen at the application stage. A student whose target market matches the school’s strongest pipeline aligns three years of machinery with their own trajectory, here, Omaha and Nebraska. A student aiming somewhere else entirely is planning to fight the current the whole way. One non-negotiable before you deposit anywhere: pick the market before you pick the school. The school is a vehicle; the market is the destination, and vehicles are chosen for destinations, not the other way around.
About 69% at the ten-month mark, counting every category together. Treat that as the ceiling of the claim, not the substance of it, the bar-required, full-time share in the 509 is the number that describes working as a lawyer.
Primarily Omaha and Nebraska, with particular strength in omaha market, Jesuit mission. Placement power is concentrated, a strength if that geography is your plan, a discount if it isn’t.
They are included in headline figures and disclosed separately in the 509. They represent real short-term work, but they are the school hiring its own graduates, subtract them when you want to know what the market did.
Every school’s marketing says graduates succeed; every school’s 509 says exactly how many, doing what, where, paid by whom. The gap between those two documents is where bad decisions live. Close it before you deposit, the breakdown takes ten minutes and the degree takes three years plus interest.