<p>Brian Leiter on his blog also addressed this issue a few days back. He noted that Chicago and Virginia had increased their allocation of fellowships in public interests as part of a long range strategic planning. Surely they are doing this to advance their reputation but not for the reason put forth by Cranky. Long-term employment data for Yale are readily available on the school website. The employment statistics of graduates indicated that only ~50% of students are in law firms, whether they are recent or 2003 (over 95% response) graduates, 40% in nonprofit/government and ~10% in business. </p>
<p>I might add that elite LACs have been doing this for years with fellowships to enable graduates to work for nonprofits as well as to pursue master degrees in foreign institutions. I don’t believe I had to explain ever why my D’s school funded fellowship to the </p>