2010 Princeton Review Top 50 Law Schools

Last week, I 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 2010 edition of Best 172 Law Schools (with the University of Cincinnati College of Law 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 extracted from the individual profiles of the 172 law schools all of the available data and blogged the Top 25 and Bottom 25 schools in each of six categories:

• Academic Experience
• Admissions Selectivity
• Career Preparation
• Professors: Accessible
• Professors: Interesting
• Study Hours

To conclude the series, I present here Princeton Review's Top 50 Law Schools, determined by (1) focusing on those five categories with reported scores in the 60-99 range (thus excluding the study hours category), (2) combining the Professors: Accessible and Professors: Interesting categories into a single category, and (3) adding the scores in the resulting four categories:

• Academic Experience
• Admissions Selectivity
• Career Preparation
• Professors: Accessible & Interesting

	School	Score		School	Score
1	Stanford	393.0	27	Washington & Lee	354.5
2	Chicago	389.5	28	William & Mary	353.5
3	Virginia	389.0	29	USC	350.5
4	Boston University	383.0	30	Illinois	349.5
5	Texas	381.5	31	Indiana-Bloomington	349.0
	Vanderbilt	381.5	32	Cardozo	347.5
7	Michigan	381.0	33	Wake Forest	345.5
8	Northwestern	379.5		Iowa	345.5
9	NYU	377.5	35	Arizona	344.0
10	Geo. Washington	375.0		Tulane	344.0
11	Pennsylvania	374.0	37	Yale	342.5
12	BYU	373.0	38	Rutgers-Camden	342.0
	Boston College	373.0	39	Mercer	339.0
	Georgetown	373.0	40	UC-Davis	338.5
15	Duke	371.0	41	American	337.5
16	UCLA	368.0		Wisconsin	337.5
17	UC-Berkeley	367.5	43	St. Thomas (Minn.)	336.5
18	Fordham	367.0		Villanova	336.5
19	Chapman	361.5	45	Temple	336.0
20	Loyola-L.A.	360.0	46	Houston	335.5
21	Emory	359.5	47	Maryland	335.0
	Georgia	359.5	48	Tennessee	334.5
23	Notre Dame	358.0		Richmond	334.5
24	Columbia	357.5	50	Ave Maria	334.0
25	Pepperdine	356.5		Samford	334.0
26	Harvard	356.0		Ohio State	334.0

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:

• 2009 Princeton Review Top 50 Law Schools
• 2008 Princeton Review Top 50 Law Schools
• 2007 Princeton Review Top 50 Law Schools