Three Texas institutions are among the top 50 law schools feeding the most graduates into Big Law.

The University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas and the University of Houston Law Center all ranked on an exclusive listing of go-to law schools by Law.com, a website by ALM Media, Texas Lawyer's parent company. The list shows the top 50 schools based on the percentage of 2017 graduates who took associate jobs at the 100 U.S. firms with the most lawyers.

On the national level, the top 100 law firms in the United States hired 4,199 law graduates in 2017. The 50 law schools that were the most popular with those firms saw 29 percent of their law graduates landing associate jobs.