2020 U.S. News Law School Rankings

Robert Morse (Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News & World Report) announced today that the new 2020 law school rankings will be released on Tuesday, March 12. Here is my coverage of the current 2019 law school rankings:

• Pepperdine’s Place In The 2019 U.S. News Rankings (Mar. 16, 2018)
• 2019 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings) (Mar. 20, 2018)
• The Top 100 Law Schools, Based On 5-, 10-, And 15-Year Rolling Average U.S. News Rankings (Mar. 20, 2018)
• 2019 U.S. News Tax Rankings (Mar. 21, 2018)
• 90% Of Students Pass The Bar Within 2 Years Of Graduation, But 10% Of Law Schools Have Fail Rates > 25% (Mar. 23, 2018)
• More On Pepperdine's Place In The 2019 Law School Rankings (Mar. 25, 2018)
• Pepperdine Is #1 In ADR, #8 In Practical Training (Mar. 26, 2018)
• Christopher Ryan (Vanderbilt) & Brian Frye (Kentucky), Law School Rankings By Student Quality (LSAT And UGPA) (Apr. 2, 2018)
• Pepperdine And U.S. News: A Problem Of Unregulated Monopoly? (Apr. 4, 2018)
• CJ Ryan (American Bar Foundation), A Value-Added Ranking Of Law Schools (Apr. 7, 2018)
• Michael Simkovic (USC), U.S. News And Pepperdine — There But For The Grace Of God Go We All (Apr. 9, 2018)
• Darren Bush (Houston) & Jessica Peterson (Durham Jones & Pinegar, Salt Lake City), Jukin’ The Stats: The Gaming Of Law School Rankings And How To Stop It (Apr. 9, 2018)
• Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Visualizing Law School Employment Outcomes In Florida, Pennsylvania, And Texas (Apr. 16, 2018)
• Law School Rankings In Ten Job Categories (May 1, 2018)
• After Temple Admitted That Its Business School Misreported Data To Goose Its Ranking, U.S. News Demands Certification Of Other Schools' Data (Including Law School) (Jul. 12, 2018)
• Temple’s Ranking Scandal Spreads To Six Additional Programs; University Also Admits To Three Errors In The Data It Submitted For Its Undergraduate College Ranking (Jul. 30, 2018)
• Average Starting Salaries For Graduates Of The 144 Law Schools Ranked By U.S. News (Jul. 31, 2018)
• Is Climbing The Research Rankings Worth The Price Tag? The Case Of St. Louis University (Aug. 6, 2018)
• Adam Bonica (Stanford), Adam Chilton (Chicago), Kyle Rozema (Northwestern) & Maya Sen (Harvard), BYU And Pepperdine Are The Most Ideologically Balanced Faculties Among The Top 50 Law Schools (2013) (Aug. 14, 2018)
• Jeff Lipshaw (Suffolk), The U.S. News Peer Reputation Rankings And The Availability Heuristic (Aug. 14, 2018)
• Greg Sisk (St. Thomas) et al., The 68 Most-Cited Law Faculties (Aug. 15, 2018)
• New Research Shows Extent Of Gender Gap In Citations (Aug. 20, 2018)
• Robert Anderson (Pepperdine), Google Scholar 2018 Law Review Rankings (Aug. 21, 2018)
• Jack Balin (Yale), The Most Cited Women In American Legal Scholarship (Aug. 27, 2018)
• 8 Colleges Benefited From Misreported Data In Recruiting Fall 2018 Class; U.S. News Pulled Their Rankings Last Week, But They Will Be Included In New Rankings Released Sept. 10 For Recruiting Fall 2019 Class (Aug. 28, 2018)
• 2019 U.S. News College Rankings (Sept. 12, 2018)
• A College President's 'Modest Proposal' To Reform The U.S. News Rankings (Sept. 24, 2018)
• More On The New U.S. News College Rankings (Sept. 15, 2018)
• July 2018 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 4h Year In A Row (Sept. 18, 2018)
• University Of Alabama Law School Receives $26.5 Million Naming Gift; Donor Hopes For Top 10-15 Ranking (Sept. 21, 2018)
• Daniel Sokol (Florida), Citation Rankings Should Be Based Only On The Top 10 Faculty At Each School (Oct. 3, 2018)
• The Economist MBA Rankings (Nov. 1, 2018)
• Jeffrey Kinsler (Former Dean, Belmont) & Jeffrey Omar Usman (Belmont), Which Law Schools Overperform And Underperform On The Bar Exam? (Nov. 1, 2018)
• Jeffrey Stevens (Nebraska) & Juan Duque (Arcadia), Scholars With Surnames Beginning With Letters Early In The Alphabet Have An Unfair Advantage In Citation Studies (Nov. 9, 2018)
• July 2018 New York Bar Exam Results: NYU #1 (Nov. 14, 2018)
• Eric Segall (Georgia State) & Adam Feldman (USC), The Elite Teaching The Elite: Who Gets Hired By The Top Law Schools? (Nov. 15, 2018)
• Big Change In The U.S. News Law School Specialty Rankings (Nov. 20, 2018)
• Princeton Review's Best 165 Law Schools (2019 Edition) (Nov. 27, 2018)
• U.S. News Rejects Democratic Senators' Demand To Change Its Rankings Methodology (Dec. 6, 2018)
• Temple Reaches $5.5 Million Settlement In U.S. News Rankings Scandal (Dec. 24, 2018)
• Federal Judge Approves $5.5 Million Settlement In Temple U.S. News Rankings Scandal (Jan. 31, 2019)
• Law School Diversity Rankings (Feb. 11, 2019)
• U.S. News To Publish Law Faculty Scholarly Impact Ranking Based On 2014-2018 Citations (Feb. 13, 2019)
• U.S. News FAQ: Law School Scholarly Impact Rankings (Feb. 14, 2019)
• More Coverage Of The U.S. News Law Faculty Scholarly Impact Rankings (Feb. 15, 2019)
• 2019 Religious Law School Rankings (Feb. 17, 2019)
• Robert Anderson (Pepperdine), Some Contrarian Thoughts On The U.S. News Faculty Scholarly Impact Rankings (Feb. 18, 2019)
• Law Prof Commentary On The U.S. News Faculty Scholarly Impact Rankings (Feb. 19, 2019)
• U.S. News Updates FAQ On Law School Scholarly Impact Rankings To Address Inclusion Of Non-Doctrinal Faculty (Feb. 21, 2019)