Pasadena, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/07/2011 -- While applications to law schools are down about 10 percent in 2011 nationwide, there is also a decrease in the level of employment rate for post graduate students.

The first-year fall enrollment at the University of Missouri is down by 11 percent and applications by nearly 17 percent. A 12 percent decline in the enrollment rate in Washington University, St. Louis shows the lessening interest of students for enrolling in law school at flagship public universities.

A substantial decrease in the new student enrollment has been reported in the University of California-Los Angeles by 16 percent, while in the University of Michigan by 14 percent.

People have started understanding that this is not just a year's economic decline but rather an extended crisis. People realize that going to law school and get rich quickly is not a child's play.

By and large, 87.4 percent of the class of 2010 had any sort of job after nine months of graduating which is low 15-year. These serious figures have encouraged plenty of core-searching in the legal academy, so as the schools provide exact job-placement data.

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