2011 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Best (and Worst) Teaching Faculties

I previously blogged the lists of the Top 10 law schools in eleven categories posted on Princeton Review's web site in connection with its publication of the 2011 edition of Best 172 Law Schools (with the University of Cincinnati College of Law again on the cover).  The rankings are the result of Princeton Review's survey of 18,000 students at the 172 law schools, along with school statistics provided by administrators.

I have extracted from the individual profiles of the 172 law schools all of the available data to rank the schools in six categories. I will report each day on one of the ranking categories.

Professors Interesting Rating: Based on law student opinion. We asked law students to rate the quality of teaching at their law schools on a scale from 60 to 99.

Here are the law schools with the most and least interesting professors:

	School	Score		School	Score
1	Boston University	99	147	Albany	70
	Stanford	99		Missouri-Kansas City	70
3	Chicago	98		St. John's	70
	Duke	98		West Virginia	70
5	Geo.Washington	97	151	Gonzaga	69
	Virginia	97		Hofstra	69
7	Loyola-L.A.	96		Loyola-New Orleans	69
	Regent	96	154	Cleveland State	68
9	Pepperdine	95		Kentucky	68
	Vanderbilt	95		Syracuse	68
11	Florida State	94	157	Capital	67
12	Notre Dame	93		Tulsa	67
	NYU	93	159	John Marshall	66
14	Chapman	92		South Dakota	66
	Wake Forest	92		Wyoming	66
16	BYU	91	162	Southwestern	65
	Northwestern	91	163	Yale	65
	Samford	91	164	Arkansas-Little Rock	64
19	Boston College	90	165	North Carolina	63
	Georgia State	90	166	Washington (Seattle)	62
	Michigan	90	167	Appalachian	61
	Texas	90		Cornell	61
23	Ave Maria	89		Northern Illinois	61
	Emory	89		SMU	61
	Florida Int'l	89		Southern	61
	Iowa	89		St. Mary's	61
	LSU	89
	Mercer	89
	Rutgers-Camden	89
	UC-Davis	89
	UCLA	89

Unfortunately, the Princeton Review did not release the response rate per school, so it is impossible to determine how the rankings are affected by each school's representation among the respondents.

For prior years' rankings, see:

• 2010 Princeton Review Professors Interesting Rankings
• 2009 Princeton Review Professors Interesting Rankings
• 2008 Princeton Review Professors Interesting Rankings
• 2007 Princeton Review Professors Interesting Rankings