Bell: Z-Scores in 2009 U.S. News Law School Rankings

Tom Bell (Chapman), featured in yesterday's front page Wall Street Journal article, Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter "Gaming," has published the Z-Scores in his model of the 2009 U.S. News Law School Rankings:

U.S. News & World Report publishes scores for each of the hundred or so schools that it ranks highest, and offers some of the data that goes into calculating those scores. To really understand how each of those schools fared relative to its peers, however, you need to know its z-score in each category of data that USN&WR measures. My model of the rankings aims to recreate those z-scores, and thus the rankings themselves, by duplicating both the data and the methodology that USN&WR uses.

As I did in 2005, 2006, and 2007, I here offer the z-scores used in my model of the USN&WR law school rankings. (Please see those earlier posts for fuller explanations of z-scores and why they matter.)