2013 U.S. News Peer Reputation Rankings (v. Overall Rankings)

Continuing a TaxProf Blog tradition, here is the full list of the 194 law schools ranked by academic peer reputation, as well as their overall rank, in the new 2013 U.S. News Law School Rankings (methodology here):

Academic Peer Rank	Academic Peer Score	School	Overall Rank
1	4.9	Yale	1
2	4.8	Stanford	2
2	4.8	Harvard	3
4	4.7	Columbia	4
4	4.7	Chicago	5
6	4.6	NYU	6
7	4.5	UC-Berkeley	7
7	4.5	Michigan	10
9	4.4	Virginia	7
10	4.3	Pennsylvania	7
10	4.3	Duke	11
12	4.2	Georgetown	13
12	4.2	Cornell	14
14	4.1	Northwestern	12
14	4.1	Texas	16
16	4.0	UCLA	15
17	3.9	Vanderbilt	16
18	3.7	USC	18
18	3.7	Washington U.	23
20	3.6	Minnesota	19
20	3.6	George Washington	20
20	3.6	North Carolina	38
23	3.5	Emory	24
24	3.4	Boston University	26
24	3.4	Boston College	29
24	3.4	UC-Davis	29
24	3.4	Iowa	29
24	3.4	Wisconsin	35
29	3.3	Notre Dame	22
29	3.3	Washington & Lee	24
29	3.3	Indiana-Bloomington	26
29	3.3	William & Mary	35
29	3.3	Ohio State	39
29	3.3	UC-Hastings	44
35	3.2	U. Washington	20
35	3.2	Fordham	29
35	3.2	Arizona	43
35	3.2	Florida	47
39	3.1	Arizona State	26
39	3.1	Alabama	29
39	3.1	Georgia	34
39	3.1	Illinois	35
39	3.1	Colorado	44
39	3.1	Wake Forest	44
39	3.1	Tulane	51
46	3.0	Maryland	39
46	3.0	American	49
48	2.9	Florida State	51
48	2.9	Cardozo	56
50	2.9	Connecticut	62
51	2.8	BYU	39
51	2.8	George Mason	39
51	2.8	Utah	47
51	2.8	San Diego	65
51	2.8	Miami	69
51	2.8	Pittsburgh	69
51	2.8	Oregon	82
58	2.7	Loyola-L.A.	51
58	2.7	Temple	58
58	2.7	Brooklyn	65
58	2.7	Case Western	67
58	2.7	Tennessee	69
58	2.7	Missouri-Columbia	76
58	2.7	Kansas	89
65	2.6	Pepperdine	49
65	2.6	SMU	51
65	2.6	Houston	57
65	2.6	Chicago-Kent	62
65	2.6	Denver	69
65	2.6	Rutgers-Newark	82
71	2.5	Georgia State	58
71	2.5	Lewis & Clark	58
71	2.5	Richmond	58
71	2.5	Kentucky	62
71	2.5	Loyola-Chicago	67
71	2.5	Cincinnati	69
71	2.5	Seton Hall	69
71	2.5	Northeastern	76
71	2.5	Catholic	82
71	2.5	Seattle	82
71	2.5	Indiana-Indianapolis	89
71	2.5	Santa Clara	96
71	2.5	Rutgers-Camden	99
84	2.4	Baylor	51
84	2.4	New Mexico	69
84	2.4	Penn State	76
84	2.4	Oklahoma	82
84	2.4	Hofstra	89
84	2.4	Nebraska	89
84	2.4	Marquette	96
84	2.4	Syracuse	96
84	2.4	St. Louis	101
84	2.4	Hawaii	106
84	2.4	Howard	119
84	2.4	Vermont	119
96	2.3	LSU	76
96	2.3	St. John's	76
96	2.3	UNLV	76
96	2.3	Michigan State	82
96	2.3	SUNY-Buffalo	82
96	2.3	Arkansas-Fayetteville	89
96	2.3	DePaul	89
96	2.3	South Carolina	109
96	2.3	Maine	119
96	2.3	U. Mississippi	135
96	2.3	Missouri-KC	135
107	2.2	Louisville	89
107	2.2	Villanova	101
107	2.2	San Francisco	106
107	2.2	Wayne State	110
107	2.2	Gonzaga	113
107	2.2	Arkansas-Little Rock	119
107	2.2	Stetson	119
114	2.1	McGeorge	101
114	2.1	West Virginia	101
114	2.1	Mercer	110
114	2.1	Albany	113
114	2.1	Wyoming	127
114	2.1	Idaho	129
114	2.1	Willamette	129
114	2.1	New York Law School	135
114	2.1	Suffolk	135
123	2.0	Tulsa	99
123	2.0	Texas Tech	101
123	2.0	Drake	106
123	2.0	Baltimore	113
123	2.0	CUNY	113
123	2.0	Quinnipiac	113
123	2.0	Drexel	119
123	2.0	William Mitchell	127
123	2.0	Southwestern	129
123	2.0	Washburn	129
123	2.0	Creighton	135
123	2.0	New Hampshire	142
123	2.0	Pace	142
123	2.0	Montana	145
123	2.0	North Dakota	145
138	1.9	Chapman	110
138	1.9	Akron	119
138	1.9	U. St. Thomas	119
138	1.9	J. Marshall (Chicago)	129
138	1.9	Toledo	129
138	1.9	Cleveland State	135
138	1.9	Hamline	Tier 2
138	1.9	Dayton	Tier 2
138	1.9	Memphis	Tier 2
138	1.9	South Dakota	Tier 2
138	1.9	Valparaiso	Tier 2
138	1.9	Widener	Tier 2
150	1.8	Samford	142
150	1.8	Duquesne	Tier 2
150	1.8	Nova	Tier 2
150	1.8	Roger Williams	Tier 2
150	1.8	Southern Illinois	Tier 2
150	1.8	Texas-Wesleyan	Tier 2
156	1.7	Florida International	113
156	1.7	California Western	Tier 2
156	1.7	Capital	Tier 2
156	1.7	Golden Gate	Tier 2
156	1.7	New England	Tier 2
156	1.7	Northern Illinois	Tier 2
156	1.7	South Texas	Tier 2
156	1.7	St. Mary's	Tier 2
164	1.6	Elon	Tier 2
164	1.6	Mississippi College	Tier 2
164	1.6	N. Carolina Central	Tier 2
164	1.6	Northern Kentucky	Tier 2
164	1.6	Ohio Northern	Tier 2
164	1.6	Oklahoma City	Tier 2
164	1.6	Touro	Tier 2
164	1.6	W. New England	Tier 2
172	1.5	Campbell	Tier 2
172	1.5	Florida A&M	Tier 2
172	1.5	St. Thomas U.	Tier 2
172	1.5	Texas Southern	Tier 2
172	1.5	Thomas Jefferson	Tier 2
172	1.5	District of Columbia	Tier 2
178	1.4	J. Marshall (Atlanta)	Tier 2
178	1.4	Charleston	Tier 2
178	1.4	Florida Coastal	Tier 2
178	1.4	Southern	Tier 2
178	1.4	Detroit-Mercy	Tier 2
178	1.4	Whittier	Tier 2
184	1.3	Appalachian	Tier 2
184	1.3	Charlotte	Tier 2
184	1.3	Faulkner	Tier 2
184	1.3	Thomas Cooley	Tier 2
184	1.3	Western State	Tier 2
189	1.2	Ave Maria	Tier 2
189	1.2	Barry	Tier 2
189	1.2	Liberty	Tier 2
189	1.2	Phoenix	Tier 2
189	1.2	Regent	Tier 2
194	1.1	La Verne	Tier 2

• 2012 U.S. News Peer Reputation Rankings (v. Overall Rankings)
• 2011 U.S. News Peer Reputation Rankings (v. Overall Rankings)
• 2010 U.S. News Peer Reputation Rankings (v. Overall Rankings)
• 2009 U.S. News Peer Reputation Rankings (v. Overall Rankings)

Update:

• ABA Journal, Harvard Law School Loses No. 2 Spot in New Rankings by US News
• Above the Law, The U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Out! 
• Brian Leiter's Law School Reports, The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same
• Conglomerate, U.S. News Law School Rankings for 2013
• Constitutional Daily, Overview of the 2012 US News Law School Rankings
• Inside the Law School Scam, Top of the Pops
• Law Librarian Blog, Why So Much Movement in This Year's US News Law School Rankings?
• National Law Journal, Yale Remains on Top of U.S. News Rankings, While Stanford Passes Harvard
• PrawfsBlawg, The Rankings Are Here! The Rankings Are Here!
• Volokh Conspiracy, 2013 US News Law School Rankings
• U.S. News & World Report, In 2013 Best Law School Rankings, Top Schools Switch Spots:

Rankings news over the past year included two law schools that admitted to reporting inaccurate data in previous rankings surveys. With this year's data, both dropped in the rankings: Illinois fell from 23rd to 35th and Villanova dropped from 84th to 101st.

• Washington University Law School Press Release, Background on U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings:

When U.S. News & World Report released its Best Graduate Schools rankings on March 13, Washington University Law School’s ranking moved down for the first time in seven years. The drop is a direct result of a change in the way employment placement is defined and reported by the ABA, as well as the very difficult marketplace for jobs faced by all graduates in the class of 2010. For other USN&WR categories (LSAT, peer assessment score, lawyers/judges score), Washington University Law School continues to place in the top 20.

This year, for the first time, the ABA took responsibility for collecting employment data. In doing so, it established new, more stringent definitions that focus on student-by-student placement. In the spirit of transparency and openness, we immediately took a rigorous and careful approach to reporting our placement data for the class of 2010 under these new criteria.

Washington University Law School’s placement rate for the class of 2010 is 80.7%; when full-time students in graduate study are included in employment data, the rate is 87.4%. For the class of 2011, we already know that our job placement figures have risen to 86.4%; including full-time graduate students, that figure is 91.2%. This is important progress in a continually challenging economy and legal hiring environment. For more information, visit here.

We are proud of our innovative work partnering with our students to place them in meaningful careers. We take seriously our standing in the rankings, but we take even more seriously our obligation to our students and graduates to report all data accurately – and most importantly, to get our students onto a solid path for success.

By measures included in the USN&WR ranking, as well as other assessments, Washington University Law School is one of the top schools in the United States, especially in view of our strong and talented student body, our faculty work that attracts national and international attention and our expanded professional skills opportunities around the world.

Update:  Eric Talley (UC-Berkeley), Scattershot Graphs on U.S. News Rankings