Biggest Moves in New 2007 U.S. News Law School Rankings

Top 25 Moves:

• +5 Washington University (19 in 2007)
• +3 California-Berkeley (8)
• +2 Notre Dame (22)
• +1 Stanford (2)
• +1 NYU (4)
• +1 USC (17)
• +1 George Washington (19)
• - 1 Harvard (3)
• - 1 Texas (16)
• - 2 Northwestern (12)
• - 2 Cornell (13)
• - 2 Boston University (22)

Biggest Top 26-50 Moves:

• +9 SMU (43)
• +6 Emory (26)
• +5 Colorado (43)
• +4 George Mason (37)
• +4 American (43)
• +2 Georgia (34)
• - 2 California-Davis (34)
• - 2 Alabama (43)
• - 2 Arizona (43)
• - 2 Tulane (43)
• - 3 Wake Forest (39)
• - 4 California-Hastings (43)
• - 5 Fordham (32)

Biggest Top 51-75 Moves:

• +30 Kansas (70)
• +25 Denver (70)
• +13 Seton Hall (70)
• +9 Missouri-Columbia (60)
• +8 Miami (65)
• +7 Temple (58)
• +7 Nebraska (70)
• +5 Arizona State (53)
• +5 Cardozo (53)
• +5 Cincinnati (53)
• +5 Chicago-Kent (60)
• +3 Florida State (53)
• +3 Villanova (60)
• - 5 Houston (70)
• - 7 Loyola-L.A. (65)
• - 8 Utah (57)
• - 8 Pittsburgh (60)
• - 8 Tennessee (60)
• - 9 Kentucky (65)

Biggest Top 76-100 Moves:

• From Tier 3 DePaul (80)
• From Tier 3 Santa Clara (87)
• From Tier 3 San Francisco (93)
• From Tier 3 Toledo (93)
• +18 Indiana-Indianapolis (77)
• +13 Mercer (87)
• +8 LSU (87)
• +8 Penn State (87)
• - 7 Rutgers-Newark (80)
• - 7 St. Louis (80)
• - 7 Richmond (80)
• - 7 Pacific (97)
• - 7 South Carolina (97)
• - 8 New Mexico (77)
• - 10 Pepperdine (87)
• - 10 Hawaii (93)
• - 12 Georgia State (97)
• - 12 University of Mississippi (97)

Top 100 to Third Tier:

• Catholic (85 last year)
• Louisville (85)
• Nevada-Las Vegas (90)
• Hofstra (95)
• Syracuse (95)
• Marquette (100)

Fourth Tier to Third Tier:

• Drake
• Northern Illinois
• Pace
• Quinnipiac

Third Tier to Fourth Tier:

• Franklin Pierce
• Michigan State
• Wyoming
• West Virginia

For the 2007 U.S. News Law School Rankings, see here ($).