Tuesday, February 4, 2020
2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Academic Experience
I previously blogged the lists of the Top 10 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2020 edition of the Princeton Review's Best Law Schools. In a series of posts this week, I will highlight the Top 50 schools in the five categories for which the Princeton Review provides individual law school data:
- Admissions Selectivity
- Academic Experience
- Professors: Teaching
- Professors: Accessibility
- Career Rating
Academic Experience: This rating measures the quality of the school's learning environment on a scale of 60 to 99. Factors taken into consideration include the Admissions Selectivity Rating, as well as how students rate each of the following: the quality of teaching and the accessibility of their professors, the research resources at their school, the range of available courses, the balance of curricular emphasis on legal theory and practical lawyering, the tolerance for diverse opinions in the classroom, and the degree of intellectual challenge that the coursework presents.
Law School | Academics | |
1 | Virginia | 99 |
2 | Stanford | 98 |
3 | Chicago | 96 |
Duke | 96 | |
Georgia | 96 | |
Kentucky | 96 | |
Oregon | 96 | |
8 | Georgetown | 95 |
Michigan | 95 | |
Northwestern | 95 | |
Notre Dame | 95 | |
Washington & Lee | 95 | |
13 | Alabama | 94 |
Boston College | 94 | |
Boston U. | 94 | |
Florida State | 94 | |
Harvard | 94 | |
Loyola-L.A. | 94 | |
Texas | 94 | |
UCLA | 94 | |
21 | Columbia | 93 |
Cornell | 93 | |
Florida Int'l | 93 | |
Georgia State | 93 | |
NYU | 93 | |
Oklahoma | 93 | |
Pepperdine | 93 | |
UC-Berkeley | 93 | |
UC-Davis | 93 | |
Vanderbilt | 93 | |
Washington U. | 93 | |
William & Mary | 93 | |
33 | Arizona State | 92 |
Memphis | 92 | |
Michigan State | 92 | |
North Carolina | 92 | |
Pennsylvania | 92 | |
Regent | 92 | |
Richmond | 92 | |
SMU | 92 | |
USC | 92 | |
Utah | 92 | |
43 | Baylor | 91 |
BYU | 91 | |
Chapman | 91 | |
Charleston | 91 | |
Colorado | 91 | |
Connecticut | 91 | |
CUNY | 91 | |
Emory | 91 | |
Florida | 91 | |
Fordham | 91 | |
Minnesota | 91 | |
New Hampshire | 91 | |
Ohio Northern | 91 | |
Ohio State | 91 | |
Pittsburgh | 91 | |
Rutgers | 91 | |
Samford | 91 | |
San Diego | 91 | |
St. John's | 91 | |
Temple | 91 | |
Tennessee | 91 | |
Texas Tech | 91 | |
UC-Hastings | 91 | |
Wake Forest | 91 |
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/02/2020-princeton-review-law-school-rankings-academic-experience.html
" as well as how students rate each of the following: the quality of teaching and the accessibility of their professors, the research resources at their school, the range of available courses, the balance of curricular emphasis on legal theory and practical lawyering, the tolerance for diverse opinions in the classroom, and the degree of intellectual challenge that the coursework presents."
I don't remember Princeton Review reaching out to me or anyone I knew in law school. Where are they getting this data from? Perhaps more to the point, how many students are they getting these opinions, I mean this data, from, and what percentage of their schools' student bodies do they represent? I'm picturing a methodological trainwreck wherein maybe 5% of a law school's student body is polled, only a fraction of that bothers responding, and the results are being held out as authoritative for the purpose of selling magazines or books or whatever medium the Princeton Review is using today.
Posted by: Unemployed Northeastern | Feb 4, 2020 8:39:59 AM