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October 23, 2006
Size Matters: Thomas Cooley's Law School Rankings
Thomas Cooley Law School has released the 8th annual edition of its law school rankings, Judging the Law Schools. The ranking is based on equal weights assigned to 32 objective variables, all but one of which are from the Official ABA Guide to Approved Law Schools. Many of these variables favor large law schools:
- Total enrollment
- Total applications
- Number of full-time faculty
- Number of part-time faculty
- Total teaching faculty
- Number of minority faculty
- Number of 2L & 3L courses
- Total volumes in library
- Total titles in library
- Total serial subscriptions
- Number of professional librarians
- Library seating capacity
- Number of networked computers available for student use
- Total library square footage
- Total law school square footage
- Number of states in which graduates are employed
Here are the Top 20 schools under this methodology:
1. Harvard
2. Georgetown
3. Texas
4. Virginia
5. NYU
6. Yale
7. Northwestern
8. Columbia
9. George Washington
10. Minnesota
11. American
12. Michigan
13. Fordham
14. Penn
15. Berkeley
16. Thomas M. Cooley
17. Temple
18. UCLA
19. Hastings
20. Miami
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Comments
Strangely, TC seems to be the only school (perhaps along with Penn State) whose US News ranking diverges from its TC ranking by more than 10 points. If the US News rankings were so wrong, then more schools would have such a divergence, besides one school with fairly low selectivity.
Posted by: S.cotus | Oct 23, 2006 4:09:24 PM
Where is stanford? Did I miss the Cardinal/tree?
Posted by: guy in the veal calf office | Oct 23, 2006 6:21:20 PM
These numbers would matter a lot more if they were per capita, rather than absolute.
Sure, Georgetown or Cooley's law libary is going to have more seats than a place like Yale (#6) or Stanford (not ranked, just like in football). Does that really tell us anything?
Posted by: Nobody Special | Oct 23, 2006 8:04:25 PM
Oh sure, Cooley is about as good as Boalt.
Not.
Posted by: anon | Oct 23, 2006 8:20:54 PM
Looks like Cooley was determined to figure out a way to group itself with some select company. Putting aside all aspects besides sheer size works, I guess.
Posted by: Robby | Oct 24, 2006 10:20:04 AM
