2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings

U.S. News & World Report has announced that the new 2024 law school rankings will be publicly released on Tuesday, April 18 (law schools will receive an embargoed copy on Tuesday, April 11). Here is my coverage of the current 2023 law school rankings:

• Pepperdine’s Place In The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings (Mar. 29, 2022)
• Amanda Runyon (Pennsylvania), Leslie Street (William & Mary), & Amanda Watson (Houston), U.S. News Rankings Get it Right On Law Libraries (Mar. 31, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News Tax Rankings (Mar. 30, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News Business/Corporate Law Rankings (Mar. 31, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings (Apr. 1, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings (Apr. 2, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings (Apr. 4, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings (Apr. 5, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings (Apr. 6, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings (Apr. 7, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News Health Care Law Rankings (Apr. 8, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings (Apr. 9, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News International Law Rankings (Apr. 11, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings (Apr. 12, 2021)
• 2023 U.S. News Trial Advocacy Rankings (Apr. 13, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings (Apr. 14, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings (Apr. 15, 2022)

• Chronicle of Higher Education, Do The ‘U.S. News’ Rankings Rely On Dubious Data? (Apr. 15, 2022)
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Whistleblower Claims Rutgers Created Fake Jobs For Graduates To Goose Business School Ranking (Apr. 15, 2022)
• Robert Kuehn (Washington University), Law School Specialty Program Ranking Credibility (Apr. 21, 2022)
• Reuters, The Top 15 Law Schools For Jobs Contain Some Surprises (Apr. 23, 2022)
• ABA, New Bar Data: Ultimate 2-Year Pass Rate Increased 1 Percentage Point; Ten Law Schools Fell Short of 75% Accreditation Threshold (Apr. 27, 2022)
• Christopher Mathis (Iowa), An Access And Equity Ranking Of America's 63 Public Law Schools (May 4, 2022)
• Poets & Quants, As Temple Dean Begins Serving 14-Month Sentence For U.S. News Rankings Fraud, Tenured Professor Is Defiant At Sentencing Hearing: 'Every Single University Has People Doing The Same Exact Operations' (May 9, 2022)
• Robert Morse (Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News), After Submitting False Data To U.S. News For 9 Years, USC Ordered To Certify Accuracy Of Its Data In Future Rankings (June 11, 2022)
• Mary Boyce (Provost, Columbia), Columbia Will Not Submit Data To U.S. News This Year After Math Professor Questioned Its #2 Ranking (July 1, 2022)
• Robert Morse (Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News), U.S. News Kicks Columbia Out Of The 2022 College Rankings After Math Professor Questioned Its #2 Ranking (July 9, 2022)
• Quacquarelli Symonds, 2022 World Law School Rankings (July 12, 2022)
• Bradley Areheart (Tennessee), The Top 100 Law Schools, Based On 5-, 10-, And 15-Year Rolling Average U.S. News Rankings (Aug. 3, 2022)
• Higher Ed Dive, Former Students Sue Columbia, Say They Were Misled By Misreporting Of Data That Inflated Its U.S. News Ranking (Aug. 6, 2022)
• Law360, Rutgers Seeks Dismissal Of Lawsuit Claiming Business School Created Fake Jobs For Graduates To Goose Ranking (Aug. 17, 2022)
• Jake Truscott (Georgia), Law School And Law Professor Twitter Rankings (Aug. 22, 2022)
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Top 50 Law Schools: Percentage Of Students Receiving At Least 50% Tuition Scholarships (Sept. 7, 2022)
• Wall Street Journal, Columbia Admits Submitting Incorrect Data That Goosed Its U.S. News Ranking To #2 (Sept. 10, 2022)
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia's U.S. News Ranking Plummets From #2 To #18, Its Lowest Ranking Since 1988 (Sept. 13, 2022)
• 2023 U.S. News College Rankings (Sept. 13, 2022)
• Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews (Sept. 19, 2022)
• Florida Bar, July 2022 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 8th Year In A Row (Sept. 20, 2022)
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Admissions, U.S. News Rankings, And 'Splitters' (Oct. 18, 2022)
• Brian Leiter (Chicago), Is U.S. News An 'Authoritative' Ranking Of Law Schools? (Oct. 26, 2022)
• Ohio Bar, July 2022 Ohio Bar Exam Results: Ohio State #1 (Nov. 1, 2022)
• Bill Henderson (Indiana), Law School Premier League And Championship League Rankings (Nov. 10, 2022)
• Brian Leiter (Chicago), The End Of The LSAT Is Coming — What Will U.S. News Do? (Nov. 12, 2022)
• Yale Law Today, Dean Gerken: Why Yale Law School Is Leaving the U.S. News & World Report Rankings (Nov. 16, 2022)
• John Manning (Dean, Harvard), Decision to Withdraw from the U.S. News & World Report Process (Nov. 16, 2022)
• Erwin Chemerinsky (UC-Berkeley), Berkeley Law Will Not Participate in the US News Rankings (Nov. 17, 2022)
• With Stanford, Columbia And Georgetown, 6 Of The T14 Refuse To Participate In The U.S. News Law School Rankings (Nov. 19, 2022)
• The U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Like The Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave (Nov. 19, 2022)
• U.S. News Law School Rankings, ABA Optional LSAT, And Harvard Affirmative Action Supreme Court Case (Nov. 21, 2022)
• Why Law Schools Outside The T14 (Like UCLA, Wash U, George Mason, Boston University, Pepperdine) May Refuse To Join The U.S. News Rankings Boycott (Nov. 21, 2022)
• Mark D. West (Dean, Michigan), Michigan Law Will Not Participate in U.S. News Rankings (Nov. 21, 2022)
• Daniel A. Crane (Michigan), Antitrust Concerns on Firing U.S. News & World Report (Nov. 21, 2022)
• With Duke And Northwestern, Nine Of T14 Refuse To Participate In U.S. News Law School Rankings (Nov. 22, 2022)
• Colin Diver (Former Dean, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Former President, Reed College), Are The U.S. News Rankings Finally Going To Die? (Nov. 22, 2022) 
• Russell Korobkin (Interim Dean, UCLA), UCLA Law Will Not Participate in U.S. News & World Report Rankings (Nov. 22, 2022)
• Daniel Solove (George Washington), Slaying the US News Law School Rankings Dragon (Nov. 23, 2022)
• Bill Henderson (Indiana), The Dollars and Math Behind Yale Law’s Withdrawn From USN Rankings (Nov. 23, 2022)
• Austen Parrish (Dean, UC-Irvine), University of California, Irvine School of Law Withdraws From Participating in U.S. News Annual Law School Rankings (Nov. 24, 2022) 
• Chicago And Cornell Are First Elite Law Schools To Refuse To Join U.S. News Rankings Boycott (Nov. 24, 2022)
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Is This the Beginning of the End of the 'U.S. News' Rankings Dominance (Nov. 24, 2022)
• Penn Evaluates Whether To Join Boycott Of U.S. News Rankings By Ten Of Top 15 Law Schools (Nov. 26, 2022) 
• Wall Street Journal Editorial, Law Schools Without LSATs (Nov. 26, 2022) 
• The Daily Caller, ‘Writing On The Wall’: Here’s Why Top US Universities May Be Pulling Out Of High-Profile Ranking System (Nov. 28, 2022)
• The New Republic, Yale Law School’s Revolt of the Elites (Nov. 28, 2022) 
• Kevin R. Johnson (Dean, U.C. Davis), UC Davis Law Withdraws From U.S. News & World Report Rankings (Nov. 29, 2022)
• More Commentary On The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott (Part 1) (Nov. 30, 2022)
• Law.com, No. 16-Ranked Washington University Law Says It Will Not Bail on the US News Rankings (Dec. 1, 2022)
• Christopher L. Mathis (Iowa), An Access and Equity Ranking of Public Law Schools (Dec. 1, 2022) 
• Michael Simkovic (USC), Should Student Loan Balances Be Included in Law School Rankings? (Dec. 2, 2022)
• More Commentary On The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott (Part 2) (Dec. 3, 2022)
• With Penn And University Of Washington, 14 Law Schools Are Not Participating In U.S. News Rankings; Georgia Is 4th School To Resist Boycott (Dec. 3, 2022)
• George Mason Is 5th Law School To Reject Boycott Of U.S. News Rankings (Dec. 5, 2022)
• The Impact Of The U.S. News Rankings Boycott On Individual Law Schools (Dec. 5, 2022)
• Troy McKenzie (Dean, NYU), NYU Law Will Not Participate in U.S. News Rankings (Dec. 5, 2022)
• More Commentary On The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott (Part 3) (Dec. 6, 2022)
• Vivian Chen, Bloomberg Law:  Law School Boycott of U.S. News Ranking Is a Big Nothing Burger (Dec. 8, 2022)
• Chronicle of Higher Education, A Rankings Revolution? Hardly. (Dec. 9, 2022)
• Eliza Stoker (Major, Lindsey & Africa, New York), Bloomberg Law Op-Ed:  U.S. News Ranking Protest Is a Chance to Rethink Legal Education (Dec. 10, 2022) 
• Simkovic On The U.S. News Rankings Boycott (Dec. 12, 2022)
• Deans Of Lower Ranked Law Schools Join Boycott And Criticize U.S. News Rankings (Dec. 13, 2022)
• Dean Of Georgia Law School (1 Of 5 Schools Publicly Not Joining Boycott Of U.S. News Rankings) Has Questions For The 17 Boycotting Schools (Dec. 15, 2022)
• University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, Statement from Dean Megan Carpenter – Suspending Participation with U.S. News Law School Rankings (Dec. 16, 2022)
• Clinical Legal Education Association, Statement on US News Rankings for Clinical Programs (Dec. 17, 2022)
• More Commentary On The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott (Part 4) (Dec. 20, 2022)
• With Southwestern, 10% Of ABA-Accredited Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings (Dec. 20, 2022)
• Wall Street Journal, University of Southern California Sued Over Education-School Rankings Claims (Dec. 21, 2022)
• Sean M. Scott (President & Dean), California Western Will Not Participate in the U.S. News Law School Rankings (Dec. 24, 2022)
• Alan B. Morrison (George Washington), National Law Journal Op-Ed:  Law School Rankings: You Can't Beat Something With Nothing (Dec. 27, 2022)
• Derek T. Muller (Iowa), What Does the Endgame Look Like For Law Schools Refusing to Participate in USNWR Rankings? (Dec. 28, 2022)
• Robert Morse (Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News) & Stephanie Salmon (Senior Vice President For Data & Information Strategy, U.S. News), Plans for Publication of the 2023-2024 Best Law Schools (Jan. 2, 2023)
• Reuters, U.S. News & World Report, Facing Backlash, Revamps Its Law School Rankings (Jan. 3, 2023) 
• Derek Muller (Iowa), By Knocking Off Expenditure Metrics and Devaluing Peer Reputation Scores in the New USNWR Formula, Did Law Schools Just Kill the Faculty's Golden Goose? (Jan. 4, 2023)
• More Coverage Of The U.S. News Law School Rankings Methodology Changes (Jan. 4, 2023)
• UC Law SF Opts Out of U.S. News Rankings Participation (Jan. 7, 2023) 
• U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott Scorecard (Jan. 9, 2023) 
• Derek Muller (Iowa), Which Law Schools Are Affected the Most by the USNWR Dropping at-Graduation Employment Rates? (Jan. 11, 2023)
• U.S. News Provides Additional Information On Forthcoming Law School Rankings (Jan. 13, 2023)
• Fordham Law News, U.S. News & World Report Participation: A Message from Dean Matthew Diller (Jan. 14, 2023)
• Summary Of Changes To The Forthcoming U.S. News Law School Rankings (Jan. 14, 2023) 
• Roger Williams University School of Law Withdraws from US News Rankings (Jan. 18, 2023)
• Harvard Medical School, HMS Withdraws From U.S. News & World Report Rankings (Jan. 18, 2023) 
• Derek Muller (Iowa), Modeling and Projecting USNWR Law School Rankings Under New Methodologies (Jan. 18, 2023)
• Maryland Carey Law Remains Focused on True Excellence (Jan. 19, 2023)
• Texas Tech Law School Informs U.S. News Of 'Substantial' Misstatement Of Its Student Loan Data The Past Three Years (Jan. 19, 2023)
• ABA Journal, US News Extends Rankings Survey Deadline; Which Law Schools Will File? (Jan. 23, 2023)
• U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott Scorecard (Updated) (Jan. 23, 2023)
• The Clash And The U.S. News Law School Rankings: Should I Stay Or Should I Go? (Jan. 25, 2023)
• How Diversity Is Lingering Over the LSAT and U.S. News & World Report Rankings (Jan. 26, 2023)
• With Gonzaga, Quinnipiac, Rutgers, And Seattle, 36 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings (Jan. 26, 2023)
• Reuters, Justice Kavanaugh Rips U.S. News Rankings As 'Highly Problematic' At Law School Talk (Jan. 28, 2023)
• With Vanderbilt, Wisconsin, Tulane, And Creighton, 40 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings (Jan. 28, 2023)
• Wall Street Journal, Rebellion Over College Rankings Seems Likely to Fail (Jan. 30, 2023)
• Ira Stoll (Education Next), Wall Street Journal Op-Ed:  Medical Schools Bail on Academic Merit and Intellectual Rigor (Feb. 2, 2023)
• Observer, U.S. News Depends On its College Rankings. What Happens When Universities Don’t Want To Be Ranked? (Feb. 3, 2023)
• Kenneth Terrell (Princeton Alumni Weekend), Why College Rankings Remain Important, If Flawed (Feb. 4, 2023)
• Chronicle of Higher Education, How Criticism Actually Strengthens Rankings (Feb. 9, 2023)
• With Connecticut And Pittsburgh, 42 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings (Feb. 11, 2023)
• Law School Rankings By Fall 2022 Median LSAT Scores (Feb. 20, 2023)
• Law School Rankings By Fall 2022 Median UGPAs (Feb. 21, 2023)
• Law School Rankings By Fall 2022 Acceptance Rates (Feb. 22, 2023)
• Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions (Feb. 23, 2023)
• David Lat Podcast, The U.S. News Rankings Drama And The Future Of Legal Education (Feb. 25, 2023)
• Fritz François (NYU Medical School) & Gbenga Ogedegbe (NYU Medical School), Wall Street Journal Op-Ed:  Medical Schools Are Wrong to Think Diversity and Merit Are in Conflict (Feb. 27, 2023)
• ABA Journal, Which Law Schools Are Choosiest? Washington University Is In Top Five, While Yale Is Mostly No. 1 (Mar. 1, 2023)
• Wall Street Journal, Colorado College Withdraws From U.S. News & World Report Undergrad Ranking (Mar. 1, 2023)
• Eric J. Gertler (Chairman & CEO, U.S. News), Wall Street Journal Op-Ed:  Why Elite Law and Medical Schools Can’t Stand U.S. News (Mar. 2, 2023)
• Law School Rankings By 2022 First-Time Bar Passage Rate (Mar. 2, 2023)
• Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rate (2020) (Mar. 3, 2023)
• New York Times, Defending Its Rankings, U.S. News Takes Aim at Top Law Schools (Mar. 4, 2023)
• Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois), Some Thoughts on the Recent Controversies Concerning Law (and Med) School Rankings: Part I in a Series (Mar. 6, 2023)
• Derek Muller (Iowa), Law Schools Say They're "Boycotting" the USNWR Rankings, But Their Admissions Practices Suggest Otherwise (Mar. 6, 2023)
• Theodore Seto (Loyola-L.A.), TaxProf Blog op-ed:  First-Time Bar Pass Performance of California Law Schools, Controlling For Median LSATs (Mar. 7, 2023)
• Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment (Mar. 14, 2023)
• March Madness Law School Bracket: Duke, Northwestern, Texas, Virginia in Final Four (Mar. 14, 2023)
• Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage (Mar. 15, 2023)
• Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage (Mar. 16, 2023)