2011 Princeton Review Top 50 Law Schools

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 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	Virginia	391.0	26	Emory	356.0
2	Stanford	389.0		Georgia	356.0
3	Chicago	387.0	28	Chapman	355.5
4	Northwestern	384.5	29	UC-Hastings	353.5
5	Boston University	382.5	30	Florida State	351.0
	Duke	382.5	31	William & Mary	350.0
7	Michigan	379.0	32	Richmond	348.5
8	NYU	377.5	33	Illinois	348.0
	Vanderbilt	377.5	34	Indiana – Bloom.	344.5
10	Boston College	374.5	35	Iowa	343.5
11	Pennsylvania	374.0	36	Tulane	343.0
12	Geo. Washington	372.5	37	Arizona State	342.0
13	Texas	370.0		Rutgers-Camden	342.0
14	UC-Berkeley	369.0	39	Cardozo	340.5
15	Notre Dame	368.5		Yale	340.5
16	Georgetown	367.5	41	Wisconsin	338.5
17	Pepperdine	365.0	42	Samford	338.0
	Wake Forest	365.0		Tennessee	338.0
19	BYU	364.5	44	Georgia State	337.5
20	Fordham	362.0		Minnesota	337.5
21	Harvard	360.0	46	American	336.0
	USC	360.0		Arizona	336.0
	UC-Davis	360.0		North Carolina	336.0
24	Loyola-L.A.	358.5	49	Houston	335.5
25	Columbia	356.5	50	St. Thomas (Minn.)	334.5

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