Tuesday, January 19, 2021
2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2021 edition of the Princeton Review's Best Law Schools. Last week, I highlighted 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
Yesterday, I blogged the Top 50 law school professor rankings, equal weight (50%) to the Professors: Teaching and Professors: Accessibility rankings.
Today, in my concluding post, I blog the Princeton Review's overall law school rankings, giving equal weight (20%) to each of the Admissions Selectivity, Academic Experience, Professors: Teaching, Professors: Accessibility, and Career Rating rankings:
January 19, 2021 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink
Monday, January 18, 2021
2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2021 edition of the Princeton Review's Best Law Schools. Last week, I highlighted 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
Here are the Top 50 law school professor rankings, giving equal weight (50%) to the Professors: Teaching and Professors: Accessibility rankings:
January 18, 2021 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink
Friday, January 15, 2021
2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Career Rating
I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2021 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
Career Rating: This rating measures the confidence students have in their school's ability to lead them to fruitful employment opportunities, as well as the school's own record of having done so. This rating takes into account both student survey responses and school-reported statistical data. We ask students about how much the law program encourages practical experience; the opportunities for externships, internships, and clerkships; and how prepared to practice law they expect to feel after graduating. We ask law schools for the median starting salaries of graduating students; the percentage employed in a job that requires bar passage (and not employed by the school); and the percentage of these students who pass the bar exam the first time they take it. This rating is on a scale of 60–99.
January 15, 2021 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink
Thursday, January 14, 2021
2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Accessibility)
I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2021 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
Professors: Accessible: This rating is based on how law students rate the accessibility of law faculty members at their school. The rating is on a scale of 60 to 99.
January 14, 2021 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Teaching)
I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2021 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
Professors: Interesting: This rating is based on how students rate the quality of teaching at their law school. This rating is on a scale of 60-99.
January 13, 2021 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Academic Experience
I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2021 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.
January 12, 2021 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink
Monday, January 11, 2021
2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Admissions Selectivity
I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2021 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
Admissions Selectivity: This rating measures the competitiveness of admissions at each law school on a scale of 60–99. Factors taken into consideration include the median LSAT score and undergraduate GPA of entering 1L students, the percentage of applicants who are accepted, and the percentage of applicants who are accepted and ultimately enroll.
January 11, 2021 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink
Monday, January 4, 2021
Muller: Law Schools With The Best And Worst Debt-To-Income Ratios Among Recent Graduates
Following upon my previous posts (links below): Derek Muller (Iowa), Which Law Schools Have the Best and Worst Debt-to-Income Ratios Among Recent Graduates?:
Last year, a treasure trove of data from the Department of Education offered incredible insights into debt and earnings of law school graduates. A recent update for 2018-2019 has been made available, and we can look at the data again.
One intriguing figure is the “debt-to-income” ratio (last year, plenty of people hated this term, but I’m still using it), or how much student debt recent graduates have compared to their earnings. ... A good rule of thumb might be that “manageable” debt loads are those where debt is about equal to expected income at graduation—i.e., a ratio of 1.00 or lower. Only 22 schools meet that definition among median debt and earnings. ...
In contrast, 17 law schools have debt-to-income ratios greater than 3.0.
January 4, 2021 in Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink
Saturday, December 26, 2020
October 2020 Tennessee Bar Exam Results: Vanderbilt, Tennessee Tie For #1
Here are the results of the October 2020 Tennessee Bar Exam Results for first-time test-takers by law school, along with each school's U.S. News ranking:
Bar Pass Rank (Rate) |
School |
US News Rank GA (Overall) |
1 (92.6%) |
Vanderbilt |
1 (18) |
1 (92.6%) |
Tennessee |
2 (70) |
83.8% |
Statewide Avg. (TN Law Schools) |
|
3 (82.6%) |
Belmont |
3 (129) |
4 (80.7%) |
Memphis |
4 (141) |
79.3% |
Statewide Avg. (Non-TN Law Schools) |
|
5 (75.9%) |
Lincoln Memorial |
5 (Tier 2) |
6 (74.5%) |
Nashville |
Unranked |
December 26, 2020 in Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Muller: Non-JD Enrollment Continues To Climb
Derek Muller (Iowa), Law School 1L JD Enrollment Holds Steady For 7th Straight Year as Non-JD Enrollment Climbs to All-Time Highs:
The 2020 law school enrollment figures have been released. They show a slightly worse first-year JD enrollment and continued growth in non-JD enrollment. Almost 16% of law school enrollees, nearly 1 in 6, are not enrolled in a JD program. ... 21,292 were enrolled in non-JD programs, a 1,400-student jump over last year. It’s now about 16% of all law school enrollment. ...
Here I also highlight a handful of schools with the highest non-JD enrollment as a percentage of total law school enrollment. There are a few heavy-hitters that are driving a lot of the non-JD enrollment.
December 23, 2020 in Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, December 21, 2020
October 2020 Georgia Bar Exam Results: Georgia #1 For 7th Consecutive Year
Here are the results of the October 2020 Georgia Bar Exam Results for first-time test-takers by law school, along with each school's U.S. News ranking:
Bar Pass Rank (Rate) |
School |
US News Rank GA (Overall) |
1 (96.4%) |
Georgia |
2 (31) |
2 (89.6%) |
Georgia State |
3 (76) |
3 (88.8%) |
Emory |
1 (24) |
84.6% |
Statewide Avg. (GA Law Schools) |
|
4 (83.2%) |
Mercer |
4 (126) |
81.0% |
Statewide Avg. (Non-GA Law Schools) |
|
5 (56.6%) |
John Marshall |
5 (Tier 2) |
6 (40.0%) |
Savannah |
Unranked |
December 21, 2020 in Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Organ: 2020 Legal Ed Data Show Rebound In Transfer Market
This blog posting updates my blog postings over the last several years — 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, regarding what we know about the transfer market. With the ABA’s posting of the 2020 Standard 509 Reports, we now have seven years (2014-2020) of more detailed transfer data from which to glean insights about the transfer market among law schools.
NUMBERS AND PERCENTAGES OF TRANSFERS REBOUND IN 2020
As shown in Table 1 below, the number of transfers in 2020 increased to 1612 (4.2%). For the last several years, the transfer market had been shrinking, having declined from 5.5% in 2014, to 4.7% in 2016, to 4.0% in 2018, and down to 3.4% in 2019. Aside from a slight bump in 2017, this is the first meaningful increase in transfers in many years, although the level is still less than in 2015-2017 when there were more than 1700 transfers.
Table 1 – Number of Transfers and Percentage of Transfers from 2014-2020
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
|
Number of Transfers |
2187 |
1979 |
1749 |
1797 |
1494 |
1294 |
1612 |
Previous Year First Year Enrollment |
39,800 |
38,000 |
37,100 |
37,100 |
37,300 |
38,400 |
38,500 |
% of Previous First-Year Total |
5.5% |
5.2% |
4.7% |
4.8% |
4.0% |
3.4% |
4.2% |
Some of this increase is attributable to the students transferring from Concordia to Idaho. Idaho doesn't normally show up on the transfer list, but this year it has 105 transfers as a result of Concordia announcing its closure. But that only explains part of the increase of more than 300 transfers between 2019 and 2020. I believe the most likely additional explanation for this bump in transfers was the financial uncertainty for law schools associated with the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly uncertainty regarding the number of first-year students who would show up at law schools that had announced during the summer a shift to online instruction for the fall semester. With uncertainty regarding first-year enrollment and revenue, some law schools may have hedged by looking for more transfers. For example, Harvard took 65 transfer students — the largest class of transfers it has taken in a number of years. Its entering class this year was only 501 — when it has consistently welcomed 560 students almost every year for the last several years. Knowing it might be welcoming a smaller entering class, I suspect Harvard made a conscious decision to welcome more transfers to counterbalance the loss of revenue from a smaller first-year class. Other law schools on the list that showed an increase between 2019 and 2020 included George Washington (up 22), Berkeley (up 19) and Florida (up 11). Relatedly, some students might have considered transferring because online learning might have made it possible for them to attend another law school without having to move, such that the transaction costs of transferring might have seemed smaller than in prior years. And if students were going to be taking online courses anyway at the law school at which they started, why not transfer and take online courses at a law school that is more highly ranked.
SOME LAW SCHOOLS CONTINUE TO DOMINATE THE TRANSFER MARKET
Table 2 lists the top 15 law schools participating in the transfer market in descending order in Summer 2017 (fall 2016 entering class), Summer 2018 (fall 2017 entering class), Summer 2019 (fall 2018 entering class), and Summer 2020 (fall 2019 entering class). The nine law schools on the list all four years include Cal. Berkeley, Columbia, Florida, Georgetown, George Washington, Harvard, Loyola Marymount, NYU, UCLA. Arizona State and Northwestern have been on the list three of the four years.
December 21, 2020 in Jerry Organ, Law School, Law School Rankings, Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Princeton Review's Best 164 Law Schools (2021 Edition)
The Princeton Review has published the 2021 edition of The Best 164 Law Schools (press release) (FAQs) (methodology):
The ranking lists, reported in 14 categories, each name the top 10 law schools. The education services company tallied the lists based on its surveys of 14,000 students attending 164 law schools [an average of 85 per school] in the U.S., and of administrators at those schools. The Princeton Review's 80-question student survey for this project asked students to rate their law schools on dozens of topics and report on their school experiences. The survey of law school administrators, which numbered more than 200 questions, covered topics from academic offerings and admission requirements to data about currently enrolled students as well as graduates' employment. Six of the 14 ranking lists were tallied using both student and administrator-reported data, five solely from student data, and three solely from administrator data.
Best Quality of Life: Based on student answers to survey questions on: whether there is a strong sense of community at the school, whether differing opinions are tolerated in the classroom, the location of the school, the quality of social life at the school, the school's research resources (library, computer and database resources).
- Virginia
- Vanderbilt
- Florida State
- Samford
- Stanford
- Colorado
- Pennsylvania
- St. Thomas (MN)
- Duke
- Pepperdine
Best Professors: Based on student answers to survey questions concerning how good their professors are as teachers and how accessible they are outside the classroom.
- Virginia
- Duke
- Chicago
- Washington & Lee
- Stanford
December 9, 2020 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
Monday, December 7, 2020
The Curious Case Of Howard Law School’s Peer Ranking
Michael Conklin (Angelo State University), The Curious Case of Howard Law School’s Peer Ranking:
The U.S. News & World Report provides law school rankings based on a peer score (hereinafter “peer rank”) and an overall score (hereinafter “overall rank”). A law school’s peer rank is generally closely associated with its overall rank. For example, in the 2021 rankings more than 60% of law schools have peer ranks that are within nine places of their overall ranks. A glaring outlier is Howard University School of Law, whose peer rank is forty-six places higher than its overall rank. Even more peculiar is that this peer–overall disparity has existed every year for the last ten years during which it has experienced a gradual upward trend. This Essay analyzes the significance of the peer rank and considers potential explanations for this divergence.
December 7, 2020 in Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (2)
Sunday, December 6, 2020
Online MBA Rankings Scandal Costs Temple $17 Million; After Ranking #1 In 2015-2018 With False Data, Business School Now Ranks #88
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Poets & Quants, MBA Ranking Scandal Costs Temple At Least $17 Million:
Temple University’s Fox School of Business says that the rankings scandal over its online MBA program has cost it a minimum of $17 million in “remediation costs.” The school made the disclosure in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education over the school’s misreporting of data to U.S. News & World Report.
Temple’s fraudulent reporting of that data led U.S. News to rank its online MBA program first in the nation for four consecutive years in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
Under the settlement, announced yesterday (Dec. 4), Temple agreed to pay a $700,000 civil fine to the government. The payment is in addition to an earlier $4 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed by former online MBA students who claimed the school’s rankings scandal devalued their degrees, nearly $1.5 million to students in other Fox programs impacted and an agreement with the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office to award $250,000 in scholarships to students who enroll in business school programs affected by the false data reporting.
The Fox School of Business, which was tossed off the U.S. News ranking last year managed a return to the list of the best earlier this year. But instead of ranking first, Fox managed to do no better than 88th place this year, tied with six other business schools (see U.S. News 2020 Online MBA Ranking: Some Familiar Names & A Few Surprises).
December 6, 2020 in Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
October 2020 Ohio Bar Exam Results: Case Western #1
Ohio Bar Exam Results Released:
The Ohio Supreme Court has released results from the October 2020 Ohio Bar Examination. The pass rate for the 958 applicants who sat for the exam was 77.4%, up 4.3 percentage points from last year. Out of 810 first-time test takers, 85% passed, up 3 percentage points from last year).
Here are the October 2020 Ohio Bar Exam results for first-time test-takers by law school:
Bar Pass Rank (Rate) |
School |
US News Rank OH (Overall) |
1 (93.7%) |
Case Western |
2 (76) |
2 (92.7%) |
Ohio State |
1 (38) |
3 (88.0%) |
Capital |
8 (Tier 2) |
4 (86.4%) |
Ohio Northern |
8 (Tier 2) |
5 (85.16%) |
Cincinnati |
3 (83) |
6 (85.11%) |
Dayton |
6 (141) |
7 (84.4%) |
Toledo |
5 (136) |
8 (82.1%) |
Cleveland State |
4 (102) |
9 (73.9%) |
Akron |
6 (141) |
December 2, 2020 in Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
2019 Tax Journal Rankings: Tax Notes #1, Florida Tax Review #2
Here are the Washington & Lee tax law review rankings of the six major tax journals:
- Columbia Journal of Tax Law ("Columbia")
- Florida Tax Review ("Florida")
- Tax Law Review ("NYU")
- Tax Lawyer ("ABA")
- Tax Notes
- Virginia Tax Review ("Virginia")
The rankings are based on citations to articles published in 2015-2019 (methodology):
- Impact Factor (citations/number of articles published)
- Citations in Law Reviews
- Citations in Cases (federal and state courts)
- Combined (weighted combination of the above rankings)
- Currency (how rapidly articles are cited)
Combined |
Impact |
Journals |
Cases |
Currency |
|
1. Tax Notes |
15.16 |
0.02 |
406 |
5 |
0.03 |
2. Florida |
14.30 |
0.75 |
188 |
1 |
1.45 |
3. NYU |
12.29 |
0.65 |
161 |
0 |
1.16 |
4. Virginia |
8.52 |
0.46 |
108 |
2 |
0.61 |
5. Columbia |
6.98 |
0.45 |
69 |
0 |
0.53 |
6. ABA |
5.82 |
0.16 |
115 |
4 |
0.23 |
As I have previously noted, Tax Notes fares poorly in the Impact Factor category (citations/number of articles published) because W&L apparently counts as "articles" all of the advance sheet material in Tax Notes. Tax Notes is #1 by a wide margin in the number of citations in law reviews, with more than double the citations of its nearest competitor.
December 1, 2020 in Law Review Rankings, Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education, Tax, Tax Analysts, Tax Rankings, Tax Scholarship, W&L Tax Journal Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, November 21, 2020
October 2020 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 6th Year In A Row
The October 2020 Florida bar passage rates by school are out. The overall pass rate for first-time takers is 71.7%, down 2.2 percentage points from last year. For the sixth year in a row, Florida International is #1. Here are the results for the 11 Florida law schools, along with each school's U.S. News ranking (Florida and overall):
Bar Pass Rank (Rate) |
School |
US News Rank FL (Overall) |
1 (89.3%) |
Florida Int'l |
4 (90) |
2 (84.4%) |
Florida State |
2 (50) |
3 (83.9%) |
Florida |
1 (24) |
4 (74.4%) |
Stetson |
5 (105) |
5 (72.56%) |
Miami |
3 (67) |
6 (67.4%) |
Nova |
Tier 2 |
7 (66.9%) |
St. Thomas |
Tier 2 |
8 (65.9%) |
Ave Maria |
Tier 2 |
9 (61.7%) |
Florida A&M |
Tier 2 |
10 (61.2%) |
Barry |
Tier 2 |
11 (57.6%) |
Florida Coastal |
Tier 2 |
For discussion of how Florida International graduates consistently overperform on the bar exam, see:
- Louis Schulze (Florida International), The Science of Learning Law: Academic Support Measures at Florida International University College of Law
- Rory Bahadur (Washburn), High 1L Attrition And 2L Transfer Rates Contribute To Florida International's Over Performance On The Bar Exam
- Rory Bahadur (Washburn), Attrition And Bar Performance
November 21, 2020 in Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (3)
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
2021 U.S. News Global Universities Rankings
U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Best Global Universities Rankings:
These institutions from the U.S. and more than 80 other countries have been ranked based on 13 indicators that measure their academic research performance and their global and regional reputations. Students can use these rankings to explore the higher education options that exist beyond their own countries' borders and to compare key aspects of schools' research missions. These are the world's nearly 1,500 top universities.
1. Harvard (100.0)
2. MIT (97.9)
3. Stanford (95.3)
4. UC-Berkeley (89.8)
5. Oxford (87.0)
6. Columbia (86.7)
7. Cal-Tech (86.3)
8. U. Washington (86.0)
9. Cambridge (85.8)
10. Johns Hopkins (85.1)
11. Princeton (85.0)
11. Yale (85.0)
13. UCLA (84.3)
14. Pennsylvania (84.2)
15. UC-San Francisco (84.1)
15. Chicago (84.1)
17. Michigan (83.5)
17. Toronto (83.5)
19. University College London (83.4)
20. Imperial College London (83.3)
21. UC-San Diego (83.1)
22. Cornell (81.9)
23. Duke (81.6)
24. Northwestern (80.4)
25. Melbourne (79.7)
October 21, 2020 in Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Ed Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (3)
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Law Firm Climate Change Rankings
Law Students For Climate Accountability, Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard:
Executive Summary
When future generations look back at the origins of the climate crisis, they will see that too many law firms were on the wrong side of history. Law firms constitute an indispensable pillar of support for the fossil fuel industry. When fossil fuel companies want to build new pipelines and refineries, law firms write the contracts and advise the project financing. Law firms lobby public officials to roll back environmental regulations and give tax breaks to polluters. And when fossil fuel companies face lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for violating laws and damaging communities, law firms work to get them off the hook in exchange for substantial legal fees.
The 2020 Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard is the first to detail the scale of top law firms’ role in the climate crisis. Using the best data available, the 2020 Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard analyzes litigation, transactional, and lobbying work conducted by the 2020 Vault Law 100 law firms—the 100 most prestigious law firms in the United States—from 2015 to 2019. Each firm receives an overall Climate Score reflecting its contribution to the climate crisis based on the data in these three categories. ...
This report shows that Vault 100 firms lend their services to clients engaged in expanding fossil fuel dependence and exacerbating climate change far more than clients working to mitigate climate change. From 2015 to 2019:
- Vault 100 firms worked on ten times as many cases exacerbating climate change as cases addressing climate change: 286 cases compared to 27 cases.
- Vault 100 firms were the legal advisors on five times more transactional work for the fossil fuel industry than the renewable energy industry: $1.3 trillion of transactions compared to $271 billion of transactions.
- Vault 100 firms lobbied five times more for fossil fuel companies than renewable energy companies: for $36.5 million in compensation compared to $6.8 million in compensation.
Of the Vault 100 firms, only four firms receive an A Climate Score, while 14 receive a B, 15 receive a C, 41 receive a D, and 26 receive an F.
October 1, 2020 in Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, September 21, 2020
The Cost Of The University Of Florida's Ascent Up The U.S. News Rankings, From #52 (#17 Among Public Universities) To #30 (#6)
Following up on my previous post, 2021 U.S. News College Rankings: Chronicle of Higher Education, The Rules of the Game:
How the U.S. News rankings helped reshape one state’s public colleges.
For Bernie Machen, it started before he’d been hired. The University of Florida’s Board of Trustees was looking for a president who would commit to moving the institution up the U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings.
“The thing that would bring us all together was to be able to bring the university, that we all went to and loved, to the top 10,” said Manny Fernandez, a tech-company executive who chaired the 2003 presidential search. At the time, the University of Florida ranked No. 52 over all and No. 17 among public universities. The board wanted to see the Gators among the top 10 public institutions.
Fernandez was tired of the reactions he would get when he divulged his alma mater at parties. Either people wouldn’t have really heard of the University of Florida — “or somebody would say, ‘Wasn’t that voted No. 1 party school by Playboy?’” Fernandez was offended. “I believe I am who I am today because I went to this school,” he said. “We needed to change the external perception of the University of Florida.” U.S. News was one very effective way to do that.
Machen, too, believed in the goal. While many people inside and outside of higher education today argue that a high ranking doesn’t necessarily translate to quality, Machen believed in many of U.S. News’s metrics. “I feel that many of them are relevant and worth shooting for,” he said, “and I think improving on those variables made us a better institution.”
He became the president of the University of Florida in January 2004. He would not see the Gators reach his goal; he retired in 2014, when UF was No. 14 among public universities. But he set the ball for the next administration’s spike. The Gators would break into the top 10 in 2017. On Monday, in U.S. News’ latest rankings, they ranked sixth — on the verge of reaching their latest goal: top five.
September 21, 2020 in Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, September 14, 2020
2021 U.S. News College Rankings
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2021 College Rankings. Here are the Top 25 National Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges:
Rank |
National Universities |
1 |
Princeton |
2 |
Harvard |
3 |
Columbia |
4 |
MIT |
4 |
Yale |
6 |
Chicago |
6 |
Stanford |
8 |
Penn |
9 |
Cal-Tech |
9 |
Johns Hopkins |
9 |
Northwestern |
12 |
Duke |
13 |
Dartmouth |
14 |
Brown |
14 |
Vanderbilt |
16 |
Rice |
16 |
Washington (St. Louis) |
18 |
Cornell |
19 |
Notre Dame |
20 |
UCLA |
21 |
Emory |
22 |
UC-Berkeley |
23 |
Georgetown |
24 |
Michigan |
24 |
USC |
Pepperdine is ranked #49.
Prior Years' U.S. News National University Rankings:
2021 U.S. News Liberal Arts College Rankings:
September 14, 2020 in Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (5)
Bahadur: Attrition And Bar Performance
TaxProf Blog op-ed: Attrition and Bar Performance, by Rory Bahadur (Washburn):
Recently I was made aware of an incredibly well researched article by Jeffrey Kinsler [The Best Law Schools for Passing the Bar Exam]. The article predicted bar outcomes based on incoming credentials and listed the 15 schools that overperformed their incoming credentials the most and the fifteen schools that underperformed the most on the bar based on incoming credentials.
The article identified the 15 top overperforming schools as
Rank |
The Top 15 Law Schools for Bar Passage |
1 |
Belmont |
2 |
Florida International |
3 |
Liberty |
4 |
Campbell |
5 |
Texas A&M |
6 |
Duquesne |
7 |
LSU |
8 |
Georgia State |
9 |
Texas Tech |
10 |
New Hampshire |
11 |
Regent |
12 |
South Carolina |
13 |
Seton Hall |
14 |
Cleveland State |
15 |
Oklahoma |
And it identified the 15 most underperforming schools as
Rank |
The Bottom 15 Law Schools for Bar Passage |
173 |
Touro |
174 |
Minnesota |
175 |
Northwestern |
176 |
John Marshall (Atlanta) |
177 |
New York Law School |
178 |
UC-Hastings |
179 |
Emory |
180 |
Thomas Cooley |
181 |
SUNY-Buffalo |
182 |
American |
183 |
Hofstra |
184 |
Southwestern |
185 |
Golden Gate |
186 |
District of Columbia |
187 |
San Francisco |
The article suggests reasons for why these schools fall where they do but I thought it would be interesting based on my current research in this area to compare 1L attrition rates for these schools. I very quickly used two on-line sources for the comparison. I used this site to ascertain 1L attrition rates for law schools and this site to ascertain the seven-year average national 1L attrition rates for schools in different LSAT ranges. The findings are laid out in the following tables that are modified from the article by Kinsler.
For the top 15 schools the data looks like this and it indicates the average 1L attrition rate for these schools is almost twice as high as the national average rate of 1L attrition for schools with similar LSAT entering credentials.
September 14, 2020 in Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (2)
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Miami And AALS Host Free Virtual Symposium Today On Power, Privilege, and Transformation: Lessons From The Pandemic For Online Legal Education
The University of Miami School of Law, in partnership with the AALS Journal of Legal Education, hosts a free virtual symposium today (noon - 6:00 pm ET) on Power, Privilege, and Transformation: Lessons from the Pandemic for Online Legal Education (registration):
Keynote Address: Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard)
Panel #1: Power, Race, Gender, Class, Disability and Family Status
- Meera E. Deo (Thomas Jefferson)
- Doron Dorfman (Syracuse)
- Sheila R. Foster (Georgetown)
- Mary Anne Franks (Miami)
- Osamudia James (Miami)
- Margaret Y. K. Woo (Northeastern; Co-editor, Journal of Legal Education)
August 5, 2020 in Conferences, Legal Ed Conferences, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Ed Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, July 31, 2020
Phillips: Which Law Schools Will Thrive (46), Survive (65), Struggle (23), Or Perish (18) In The Age Of COVID-19?
Following up on my previous post, Which Of The 436 Universities Ranked BY U.S. News Will Thrive, Survive, Struggle, Or Perish In The Age Of COVID-19?:
James C. Phillips (Chapman), Will My Law School Perish?:
Based on Professor Galloway’s predictions, 18 law schools will perish in the near future (because their university will perish). That is 1 school in the top 50, 5 in the 51-100, 5 in the 101-147, and 7 in the unranked law schools. I have listed them below in order of ranking:
27 |
Fordham |
53 |
Cardozo |
62 |
Seton Hall |
70 |
Loyola-Chicago |
83 |
Chicago-Kent |
93 |
Drexel |
102 |
Hofstra |
111 |
Chapman |
118 |
DePaul |
136 |
Pace |
141 |
Willamette |
148-194 |
Campbell |
148-194 |
Elon |
148-194 |
New England |
148-194 |
Nova |
148-194 |
Detroit Mercy |
148-194 |
UMass-Dartmouth |
148-194 |
McGeorge |
Here are the projections for the U.S. News Top 50
US News Ranking |
Law School |
Galloway Categorization |
1 |
Yale |
Thrive |
2 |
Stanford |
Thrive |
3 |
Harvard |
Thrive |
4 |
Columbia |
Survive |
4 |
Chicago |
Survive |
6 |
NYU |
Survive |
7 |
Penn |
Thrive |
8 |
Virginia |
Thrive |
9 |
Northwestern |
Thrive |
9 |
UC-Berkeley |
Survive |
9 |
Michigan |
Thrive |
12 |
Duke |
Thrive |
13 |
Cornell |
Thrive |
14 |
Georgetown |
Survive |
15 |
UCLA |
Survive |
16 |
Texas |
Thrive |
17 |
Washington U. |
Thrive |
18 |
USC |
Survive |
18 |
Vanderbilt |
Survive |
20 |
Boston University |
Survive |
21 |
Minnesota |
Survive |
22 |
Notre Dame |
Thrive |
23 |
George Washington |
Survive |
24 |
Arizona State |
Survive |
24 |
Emory |
Survive |
24 |
Florida |
Survive |
27 |
Fordham |
Perish |
27 |
UC-Irvine |
Survive |
27 |
Iowa |
Survive |
27 |
North Carolina |
Thrive |
31 |
Boston College |
Thrive |
31 |
Alabama |
Survive |
31 |
Georgia |
Thrive |
31 |
Illinois |
Survive |
31 |
Washington & Lee |
Thrive |
31 |
William & Mary |
Survive |
37 |
BYU |
Thrive |
38 |
Indiana |
Survive |
38 |
Ohio State |
Survive |
38 |
UC-Davis |
Survive |
38 |
Wisconsin |
Survive |
42 |
George Mason |
Survive |
42 |
U. Washington |
Survive |
42 |
Wake Forest |
Survive |
45 |
Utah |
Survive |
46 |
Colorado |
Survive |
47 |
Pepperdine |
Survive |
47 |
Arizona |
Survive |
47 |
Maryland |
Survive |
50 |
Baylor |
Struggle |
50 |
Florida State |
Survive |
50 |
Connecticut |
Survive |
Here are the totals:
July 31, 2020 in Coronavirus, Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (7)
Monday, July 20, 2020
2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews:
This is an updated ranking of the top flagship law reviews at US law schools (updated as of July 15, 2020). ... The ranking table below includes 191 flagship law reviews from ABA accredited law schools. Even if you ignore the “MetaRank,” the table provides access to the updated rankings from US News (peer reputation and overall rankings, averaged over the 10-year period from 2012 through the 2021 edition) and the current W&L (2015-2019; released on June 1, 2020) and Google Scholar (July 2020) rankings.. ...
prRank = Average 10-year US News Peer Reputation score ranking;
usnRank = Average 10-year overall US News school ranking;
wluRank = Washington & Lee Law Journal Ranking;
gRank = Google Scholar Metrics ranking;
wlu(IF)Rank = Washington & Lee Law Journal Impact Factor Ranking (NOT included in meta-rank).
Journal | MetaRank | prRank | usnRank | wluRank | gRank | wlu(IF)Rank |
Yale Law Journal | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Harvard Law Review | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 20 |
Stanford Law Review | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Columbia Law Review | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 19 |
University of Chicago Law Review | 5 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 15 |
Univ. of Pennsylvania Law Rev. | 6 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
California Law Review | 7 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 6 |
New York University Law Review | 8 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 14 |
Georgetown Law Journal | 9 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 10 |
Virginia Law Review | 10 | 9 | 8 | 16 | 12 | 17 |
Michigan Law Review | 11 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 16 | 8 |
Texas Law Review | 12 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 8 | 20 |
UCLA Law Review | 13 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 3 |
Duke Law Journal | 13 | 11 | 11 | 17 | 14 | 5 |
Vanderbilt Law Review | 15 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 15 | 13 |
Notre Dame Law Review | 16 | 24 | 21 | 8 | 16 | 6 |
Cornell Law Review | 17 | 12 | 13 | 23 | 22 | 12 |
Minnesota Law Review | 18 | 20 | 20 | 13 | 18 | 15 |
Iowa Law Review | 19 | 28 | 25 | 11 | 10 | 23 |
Northwestern Univ. Law Review | 20 | 13 | 12 | 24 | 26 | 27 |
Washington Univ. Law Review | 21 | 18 | 18 | 26 | 28 | 18 |
Boston University Law Review | 22 | 25 | 24 | 22 | 20 | 22 |
Southern California Law Review | 23 | 19 | 19 | 27 | 30 | 11 |
George Washington Law Review | 24 | 23 | 22 | 29 | 22 | 42 |
Emory Law Journal | 24 | 21 | 23 | 30 | 22 | 29 |
Boston College Law Review | 26 | 29 | 30 | 21 | 19 | 27 |
William & Mary Law Review | 27 | 33 | 35 | 18 | 21 | 8 |
UC Davis Law Review | 28 | 26 | 36 | 28 | 22 | 26 |
Fordham Law Review | 29 | 34 | 38 | 20 | 27 | 46 |
Indiana Law Journal | 30 | 32 | 29 | 35 | 34 | 33 |
Washington Law Review | 30 | 35 | 31 | 34 | 30 | 32 |
Wisconsin Law Review | 32 | 26 | 34 | 39 | 37 | 38 |
Ohio State Law Journal | 33 | 31 | 37 | 33 | 36 | 25 |
Univ. of Illinois Law Review | 34 | 36 | 41 | 32 | 29 | 39 |
North Carolina Law Review | 35 | 22 | 39 | 36 | 45 | 37 |
Florida Law Review | 36 | 38 | 44 | 31 | 30 | 34 |
Washington & Lee Law Review | 37 | 39 | 33 | 43 | 40 | 43 |
Alabama Law Review | 38 | 40 | 27 | 40 | 52 | 35 |
Arizona Law Review | 39 | 43 | 43 | 42 | 34 | 36 |
Hastings Law Journal | 40 | 41 | 53 | 37 | 37 | 40 |
Arizona State Law Journal | 41 | 44 | 28 | 55 | 42 | 61 |
UC Irvine Law Review | 42 | 30 | 26 | 66 | 51 | 58 |
Cardozo Law Review | 43 | 53 | 59 | 25 | 37 | 24 |
Wake Forest Law Review | 44 | 45 | 40 | 47 | 47 | 49 |
Maryland Law Review | 45 | 47 | 48 | 44 | 42 | 43 |
American Univ. Law Review | 46 | 49 | 71 | 38 | 30 | 40 |
Colorado Law Review | 47 | 42 | 45 | 50 | 55 | 52 |
Georgia Law Review | 48 | 37 | 32 | 58 | 66 | 52 |
BYU Law Review | 49 | 50 | 42 | 60 | 49 | 66 |
Utah Law Review | 50 | 51 | 47 | 53 | 52 | 54 |
Houston Law Review | 51 | 64 | 56 | 46 | 48 | 43 |
Connecticut Law Review | 52 | 52 | 57 | 41 | 66 | 29 |
George Mason Law Review | 53 | 56 | 46 | 49 | 66 | 51 |
Case Western Reserve Law Rev. | 54 | 63 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 66 |
Univ. of Richmond Law Review | 55 | 73 | 55 | 54 | 52 | 49 |
Tulane Law Review | 56 | 46 | 51 | 69 | 85 | 83 |
Univ. of Miami Law Review | 57 | 54 | 67 | 68 | 63 | 62 |
Temple Law Review | 57 | 58 | 54 | 61 | 79 | 47 |
Brooklyn Law Review | 59 | 70 | 82 | 48 | 58 | 66 |
SMU Law Review | 59 | 66 | 49 | 64 | 79 | 77 |
Pepperdine Law Review | 61 | 67 | 58 | 71 | 63 | 66 |
Lewis & Clark Law Review | 61 | 81 | 87 | 51 | 40 | 56 |
Florida State Univ. Law Review | 63 | 48 | 50 | 89 | 75 | 74 |
Seton Hall Law Review | 64 | 85 | 62 | 62 | 55 | 58 |
Missouri Law Review | 64 | 68 | 73 | 65 | 58 | 65 |
Nevada Law Journal | 66 | 84 | 68 | 45 | 75 | 48 |
Chicago-Kent Law Review | 67 | 72 | 80 | 63 | 58 | 74 |
San Diego Law Review | 68 | 58 | 77 | 80 | 61 | 72 |
Michigan State Law Review | 69 | 95 | 90 | 59 | 45 | 63 |
Univ. of Kansas Law Review | 70 | 62 | 74 | 85 | 70 | 88 |
Nebraska Law Review | 71 | 80 | 70 | 83 | 61 | 80 |
Loyola Univ. Chicago Law Journal | 72 | 75 | 76 | 72 | 72 | 66 |
Oklahoma Law Review | 73 | 78 | 69 | 76 | 75 | 87 |
Denver University Law Review | 74 | 57 | 72 | 88 | 85 | 88 |
Penn State Law Review | 75 | 93 | 66 | 57 | 90 | 31 |
Tennessee Law Review | 76 | 61 | 61 | 96 | 94 | 110 |
Seattle University Law Review | 77 | 91 | 108 | 56 | 63 | 71 |
Indiana Law Review | 78 | 76 | 98 | 77 | 79 | 83 |
Georgia State Univ. Law Review | 78 | 69 | 60 | 109 | 92 | 147 |
Univ. of Cincinnati Law Review | 80 | 83 | 75 | 82 | 96 | 81 |
Villanova Law Review | 80 | 86 | 85 | 86 | 79 | 88 |
South Carolina Law Review | 82 | 89 | 95 | 87 | 70 | 83 |
DePaul Law Review | 83 | 98 | 112 | 67 | 66 | 56 |
Kentucky Law Journal | 84 | 71 | 63 | 108 | 107 | 125 |
Hofstra Law Review | 85 | 99 | 109 | 74 | 72 | 81 |
West Virginia Law Review | 86 | 109 | 99 | 70 | 79 | 58 |
Buffalo Law Review | 87 | 100 | 96 | 84 | 79 | 74 |
Saint Louis Univ. Law Journal | 88 | 97 | 92 | 102 | 72 | 114 |
Marquette Law Review | 89 | 92 | 100 | 78 | 94 | 79 |
Rutgers Univ. Law Review | 90 | 74 | 83 | 123 | 85 | 142 |
Baylor Law Review | 90 | 87 | 52 | 113 | 1000 | 103 |
Albany Law Review | 92 | 127 | 119 | 73 | 49 | 83 |
Arkansas Law Review | 93 | 96 | 84 | 105 | 85 | 129 |
Santa Clara Law Review | 94 | 77 | 106 | 99 | 96 | 77 |
UMKC Law Review | 95 | 106 | 118 | 81 | 75 | 108 |
Louisiana Law Review | 96 | 102 | 89 | 98 | 96 | 125 |
St. John’s Law Review | 97 | 104 | 86 | 112 | 99 | 136 |
Howard Law Journal | 98 | 90 | 116 | 100 | 99 | 103 |
Catholic Univ. Law Review | 99 | 101 | 100 | 107 | 102 | 114 |
Loyola of L.A. Law Review | 100 | 64 | 65 | 150 | 133 | 150 |
Oregon Law Review | 101 | 55 | 88 | 136 | 1000 | 142 |
Texas A&M Law Review | 101 | 123 | 115 | 75 | 102 | 63 |
Syracuse Law Review | 103 | 94 | 96 | 101 | 126 | 99 |
Drake Law Review | 103 | 132 | 110 | 90 | 85 | 91 |
Idaho Law Review | 105 | 117 | 129 | 119 | 55 | 106 |
Univ. of Pittsburgh Law Review | 106 | 60 | 81 | 141 | 112 | 136 |
New Mexico Law Review | 107 | 88 | 79 | 131 | 1000 | 119 |
Chapman Law Review | 108 | 141 | 131 | 79 | 1000 | 54 |
Texas Tech Law Review | 109 | 135 | 113 | 91 | 92 | 99 |
Mississippi Law Journal | 110 | 103 | 107 | 110 | 119 | 114 |
Cleveland State Law Review | 111 | 140 | 117 | 94 | 90 | 91 |
Vermont Law Review | 112 | 112 | 133 | 95 | 102 | 103 |
Univ. of Louisville Law Review | 113 | 108 | 93 | 122 | 1000 | 97 |
Univ. of San Francisco Law Rev. | 114 | 119 | 142 | 93 | 1000 | 73 |
Washburn Law Journal | 115 | 136 | 128 | 97 | 1000 | 96 |
Northeastern Univ. Law Journal | 116 | 82 | 77 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Maine Law Review | 117 | 105 | 124 | 130 | 102 | 110 |
Mercer Law Review | 118 | 121 | 121 | 111 | 115 | 136 |
Akron Law Review | 119 | 144 | 135 | 92 | 102 | 91 |
Univ. of Hawai'i Law Review | 119 | 79 | 94 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
CUNY Law Review | 121 | 114 | 120 | 121 | 1000 | 112 |
Tulsa Law Review | 122 | 125 | 91 | 150 | 112 | 150 |
Montana Law Review | 122 | 120 | 126 | 116 | 1000 | 95 |
Creighton Law Review | 124 | 134 | 122 | 106 | 119 | 119 |
Stetson Law Review | 125 | 110 | 104 | 134 | 1000 | 149 |
Quinnipiac Law Review | 126 | 131 | 130 | 114 | 1000 | 99 |
Wayne Law Review | 127 | 116 | 100 | 150 | 131 | 150 |
Univ. of Memphis Law Review | 128 | 143 | 147 | 103 | 107 | 133 |
Univ. of St. Thomas Law Journal | 129 | 139 | 125 | 139 | 99 | 125 |
Pace Law Review | 130 | 132 | 136 | 128 | 109 | 136 |
Wyoming Law Review | 131 | 118 | 126 | 132 | 1000 | 122 |
Duquesne Law Review | 132 | 148 | 134 | 115 | 1000 | 99 |
Drexel Law Review | 132 | 115 | 111 | 143 | 1000 | 130 |
Univ. of Baltimore Law Review | 134 | 122 | 123 | 134 | 1000 | 112 |
Loyola Law Review | 135 | 113 | 140 | 137 | 126 | 128 |
Suffolk Univ. Law Review | 135 | 130 | 151 | 120 | 115 | 136 |
FIU Law Review | 137 | 147 | 105 | 146 | 119 | 136 |
Gonzaga Law Review | 138 | 111 | 114 | 147 | 1000 | 148 |
New York Law School Law Rev. | 139 | 129 | 132 | 142 | 119 | 130 |
Southwestern Law Review | 140 | 138 | 150 | 129 | 109 | 114 |
Univ. of Toledo Law Review | 141 | 142 | 141 | 125 | 119 | 142 |
Univ. of Arkansas LR Law Rev. | 142 | 107 | 137 | 150 | 134 | 150 |
Univ. of the Pacific Law Review | 143 | 128 | 139 | 150 | 112 | 150 |
Univ. of New Hampshire Law Rev. | 143 | 126 | 103 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Ohio Northern Univ. Law Review | 145 | 169 | 153 | 104 | 1000 | 122 |
St. Mary's Law Journal | 146 | 157 | 158 | 117 | 119 | 119 |
Mitchell Hamline Law Review | 147 | 145 | 144 | 150 | 115 | 150 |
South Dakota Law Review | 147 | 146 | 147 | 133 | 128 | 133 |
Capital University Law Review | 149 | 170 | 161 | 117 | 109 | 107 |
Willamette Law Review | 150 | 124 | 138 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Touro Law Review | 151 | 167 | 161 | 127 | 115 | 130 |
Northern Kentucky Law Review | 152 | 162 | 161 | 124 | 1000 | 91 |
Campbell Law Review | 153 | 170 | 146 | 140 | 119 | 122 |
John Marshall Law Review | 154 | 149 | 152 | 149 | 131 | 145 |
North Dakota Law Review | 155 | 137 | 149 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Univ. of Detroit Mercy Law Rev. | 155 | 173 | 161 | 126 | 1000 | 97 |
South Texas Law Review | 157 | 157 | 156 | 148 | 128 | 145 |
Roger Williams Univ. Law Rev. | 158 | 155 | 161 | 150 | 128 | 150 |
Southern Illinois Univ. L.J. | 159 | 154 | 156 | 150 | 135 | 150 |
Cumberland Law Review | 160 | 153 | 145 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Widener Law Review | 161 | 150 | 161 | 144 | 1000 | 114 |
Univ. of Dayton Law Review | 162 | 151 | 154 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Northern Illinois Univ. Law Rev. | 163 | 156 | 155 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Widener Commonwealth Law Rev. | 163 | 152 | 159 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
New England Law Review | 165 | 168 | 161 | 145 | 1000 | 133 |
Nova Law Review | 166 | 159 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Regent Univ. Law Review | 167 | 184 | 161 | 138 | 1000 | 108 |
Elon Law Review | 167 | 160 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Golden Gate Univ. Law Review | 169 | 161 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
California Western Law Review | 170 | 163 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Belmont Law Review | 170 | 181 | 143 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Oklahoma City Univ. Law Review | 170 | 165 | 159 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Mississippi College Law Review | 173 | 164 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
University of Mass. Law Review | 174 | 166 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
N. Carolina Central Law Review | 175 | 172 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Univ. of the D.C. Law Review | 176 | 174 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Florida A&M Univ. Law Review | 177 | 175 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
W. New England Law Review | 178 | 176 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
St. Thomas Law Review | 179 | 177 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Thurgood Marshall Law Review | 179 | 177 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
John Marshall Law Journal | 181 | 179 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Southern Univ. Law Review | 182 | 180 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Charleston Law Review | 183 | 182 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Faulkner Law Review | 184 | 183 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Florida Coastal Law Review | 185 | 184 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Appalachian Journal of Law | 186 | 186 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Liberty University Law Review | 187 | 187 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Barry Law Review | 188 | 188 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Western State Univ. Law Review | 189 | 189 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Thomas M. Cooley Law Review | 189 | 189 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
Ave Maria Law Review | 191 | 191 | 161 | 150 | 1000 | 150 |
- 2019 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
- 2018 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
- 2016 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
July 20, 2020 in Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Ed Scholarship, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
Monday, June 29, 2020
College Fall 2020 Plans And U.S. News Rankings: Higher Ranked Schools Are More Likely Online, Lower Ranked Schools Are More Likely On-Ground
Andy Thomason (Chronicle of Higher Education), U.S. News Rankings and Fall Plans:
Green: plans that don't (yet) imagine on-campus instruction ("planning for online," "waiting to decide," "considering a range of scenarios")
Orange: some in-person and some online ("proposing a hybrid model")
Red: "Planning for in-person" ...
The top 20 were much more reticent to pledge a return to campus, as compared to institutions 81-100:
June 29, 2020 in Coronavirus, Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, June 19, 2020
After 7 Of 8 Ivy League Schools Drop SAT/ACT For Class of 2025, U.S. News Will Start Ranking Test-Blind Colleges
Robert Morse (Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News) & Eric Brook (Senior Data Analyst), U.S. News to Start Ranking Test-Blind Schools:
Starting with the upcoming 2021 Best Colleges rankings – to be published in September 2020 – U.S. News will rank schools that report not using the SAT or ACT at all in admissions decisions. In the past, beginning with the 2008 edition of Best Colleges, these test-blind schools were automatically excluded from the overall rankings and categorized as "Unranked."
In contrast, schools that have test-optional or text-flexible admissions policies have always been ranked and will continue to be ranked.
Why is U.S. News making this change? Because prospective students and their families want to know the academic quality of all schools, including ones that do not make use of standardized test scores. Also, in recent years a large number of colleges have changed their application requirements regarding the SAT and ACT. ...
June 19, 2020 in Coronavirus, Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (2)
Thursday, June 11, 2020
The 20 Law Schools With The Most Improved Bar Passage Rates
Bar Exam Results Improve as Law Schools Push Prep, preLaw (Spring 2020):
In 2019, first-time test-takers nationwide passed at a rate of nearly 80%, up 5% from the year before, according to recently released ABA figures. ...
June 11, 2020 in Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education, Pepperdine Legal Ed | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Law School Rankings By Class Of 2019 Job Placement
Following up on Monday's post, Class Of 2020 Legal Employment Outcomes In California, DC-Maryland-Virginia, Florida, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, And Texas:
Karen Sloan (Law.com), Law Grads Hiring Report: Job Stats for the Class of 2019:
Among the J.D. class of 2019, four out of five graduates landed jobs that either require bar passage or for which a law degree offers an advantage within 10 months of leaving campus. That’s the strongest entry-level employment record in more than a decade, according to new data from the American Bar Association. ...
But not every law school had such robust employment outcomes last year. Law.com has dug through a wealth of jobs data released by the ABA this month to spotlight how law schools performed in 10 different areas:
June 10, 2020 in Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
The Best Law Schools For Practical Training
Best Schools For Practical Training, preLaw (Spring 2020):
These schools focus on giving students real-world experience before they step into the real world. It’s growing more vital, since employers want grads who don’t need hand-holding.
We graded schools on a number of data points, focusing on key practical training offerings such as clinics, externships, simulation courses, pro bono hours and moot trial participation.
June 9, 2020 in Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education, Pepperdine Legal Ed | Permalink | Comments (3)
Friday, June 5, 2020
Bob Morse Discusses The U.S. News Law School Rankings Today At Texas A&M Virtual Conference
I am delighted to be speaking on a U.S. News law school rankings panel today at Texas A&M University School of Law's virtual Conference for Associate Deans (at 11:30 am - 12:45 pm ET). Robert Morse, Chief Data Strategist at U.S. News, will make a presentation on The U.S. News Law School Rankings: All Things Considered. After Bob's presentation, Gary Lucas (Senior Associate Dean, Texas A&M) and I will ask Bob some questions, followed by Q&A with the audience. Among the issues I hope we will discuss are:
- In light of this current moment in our nation, is US News going to add a diversity component to the rankings (as it does in its college rankings using Pell Grants)?
- If so, would U.S. News use its existing stand alone Law School Diversity Index?
- Why does U.S. News use national diversity data rather than data from the state in which a law school is located, like it does for the bar exam component of the rankings?
- Would U.S. News consider other measures, such as the percentage of students who are first-generation students (law school or college)?
- UPDATE: Bob said U.S. News is open to perhaps including a diversity component to the rankings. U.S. News is working with LSAC on getting appropriate data (such as Pell Grants received by law students during their undergraduate years).
- Is U.S. News considering suspending the law school rankings due to COVID-19, as it has been asked to do for the college and business school rankings?
- What does U.S. News think about Businessweek's decision to suspend its business school rankings due to COVID-19?
- UPDATE: Bob Said U.S. News is considering the issue but it is too early to make a determination.
- If U.S. News does not suspend the law school rankings:
- How will U.S. News adjust the bar exam component of the rankings in light of the decision by states to permit graduate to practice law prior to passing a bar exam under diploma privilege and supervised practice systems?
- How will U.S. News adjust the job placement component of the rankings?
- How will U.S. News define jobs at graduation for schools that have not yet held graduation ceremonies due to COVID-19? Do virtual graduations matter?
- How will U.S. News define jobs ten months after graduation for law schools located in states that have delayed their July bar exams? Will U.S. News adjust the 10-month period for law schools located in those states?
- UPDATE: Bob recognized the problem and said U.S. News likely would follow the lead of the ABA and NALP.
- When will the stand alone U.S. News scholarly impact rankings (FAQ; Update #1; Update #2; Update #3) be published?
- UPDATE: Bob said 2020.
- U.S. News ranks universities in several different categories (e.g., national universities, liberal arts colleges), based on Carnegie classifications.
- Would U.S. News ever consider ranking law schools in different categories rather than in a single ranking?
- What categories might U.S. News consider?
- Might law schools opt-in to a category?
- U.S. News reported that 32 schools (16% the total) reported GRE scores for their Fall 2019 entering class.
- How does U.S. News weight the three GRE components: quantitative, verbal, analytical writing?
- UPDATE: Bob said 40%/40%/20%.
June 5, 2020 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education, Pepperdine Legal Ed | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Use Of Google Scholar And Hein Author Profiles Boosts Citations
Caroline Osborne (West Virginia) & Stephanie Miller (West Virginia), The Scholarly Impact Matrix: An Empirical Study of How Multiple Metrics Create an Informed Story of a Scholar's Work:
This article analyzes data collected in an empirical study of citation metrics. Between February 1, 2019 and April 30, 2019, the authors collected citation data from Google Scholar, HeinOnline, Westlaw, Lexis, SSRN, and Digital Commons repositories on randomly selected faculty members at U.S. law schools for the purpose of answering questions regarding fit and utility of citation metrics. Analysis of the citation data examines the impact of adoption of scholarly profiles, gender, and stage in the profession, and discipline, on exposure on citation with the conclusion that exposure results in increased citations.
Conclusion
This examination of metrics measuring exposure and citation demonstrates that greater exposure leads to greater citations. This suggests that robust promotion and scholarly communication efforts that lead to downloads have cascading effects that lead to increased citation. Scholars with Google Scholar profiles enjoy a greater likelihood of citation and exposure across all platforms in the study with the exception of HeinOnline. This suggests scholars should adopt Google Scholar profiles. In contrast, the Hein Author profile while having no apparent benefit for exposure does positively impact citation. This finding suggests scholars should adopt the Hein Author profile. ORCiD has no measurable impact on either exposure or citation but may have other benefits not explored in the underlying study or this paper.
Gender impacts citation with men more likely to be frequently cited or significantly cited when compared to women. ...
The results centered on the scholar’s state of career are as anticipated. The mature scholar, one with twenty plus years in the profession, enjoys a greater likelihood of being significantly cited than those with less years in the profession. This reflects the long tail of scholarship. In contrast, scholars, with between eight and nineteen years in the profession, receive the benefit of exposure being more likely to be in the significantly downloaded interval than either those with greater or fewer years in the profession. Analysis from this study supports a generational difference and the development of institutional use of IR’s and SSRN.
Institution rank produces a benefit at the frequently cited interval for those at a T-14 institution, but rank is irreverent at the significantly cited level, except on HeinOnline where scholars at T-50 schools are more likely to be significantly cited than scholars at a T-14 institution. Scholars at T14 institutions enjoy a benefit at the frequently cited level.
May 28, 2020 in Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Ed Scholarship, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Movement Builds To Suspend U.S. News Rankings During COVID-19 Pandemic
Following up on my previous posts:
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GMAC, Accreditors Seek To Postpone Business School Rankings During COVID-19
- Businessweek Suspends MBA Rankings Due To COVID-19; Will US News Follow Suit? What About Law School Rankings?
Chronicle of Higher Education, Why One Former Campus Leader Thinks College Rankings Should Stop During the Pandemic:
The coronavirus has underscored inequities in American society, including among college students. ... Now, in the next phase of the pandemic, new inequities are poised to arise, this time among both who gets into college, and among who completes their degrees. So argues H. Holden Thorp in the latest issue of the journal Science, of which he’s editor in chief. He has two ideas for leveling the playing field: Suspend both the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, and the use of standardized tests in admissions.
Thorp draws from his past experiences as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then provost of Washington University in St. Louis.
"The best thing would be for U.S. News to do the right thing and say, 'We’re just not going to do this until this is over.'”
[Reached for comment, Robert Morse, chief data strategist for U.S. News & World Report, sent along the following statement, via a spokeswoman:
May 28, 2020 in Coronavirus, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
Monday, May 25, 2020
The Ten Law Schools With The Most Discounted Tuition
U.S. News & World Report, 10 Law Schools That Offer the Most Tuition Help:
Here are 10 schools where students received enough grants to cover more than half of their tuition:
Law School | Students With Grants > 50% Tuition | Median Grant | US News Rank | |
1 | Penn State - Carlisle | 93.2% | $49,896 | 62 |
2 | Penn State - Univ. Park | 90.0% | $49,896 | 60 |
3 | Belmont | 88.2% | $32,572 | 129 |
4 | UNLV | 85.6% | $25,900 | 62 |
5 | George Mason | 84.7% | $30,000 | 42 |
6 | Nebraska | 81.3% | $15,800 | 76 |
7 | Illinois | 80.6% | $35,000 | 31 |
8 | Washington Univ. | 79.3% | $40,000 | 17 |
9 | Villanova | 78.0% | $40,000 | 62 |
10 | Liberty | 77.8% | $20,075 | Tier 2 |
May 25, 2020 in Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Businessweek Suspends MBA Rankings Due To COVID-19; Will US News Follow Suit? What About Law School Rankings?
Following up on my previous post, GMAC, Accreditors Seek To Postpone Business School Rankings During COVID-19:
Poets&Quants, Businessweek Agrees To Suspend Its MBA Ranking This Year:
Bloomberg Businessweek, which annually publishes one of the five most influential rankings of MBA programs, today (May 7) announced that it would suspend its 2020 ranking due to the disruptions caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Poets&Quants, Wimps: Will U.S. News Chicken Out & Pause Its MBA Ranking?:
The wimpy decision to pause one of the five most influential MBA rankings comes less than two weeks after the Graduate Management Admission Council, which administers the GMAT exam, and two business school accreditation agencies asked ranking organizations, including Businessweek, to halt their work and postpone the publication of their lists.
Sad to say, Businessweek‘s ranking has waned in importance over the years after a series of abrupt methodology changes and highly inconsistent an less-than-credible results. ... It is one thing, however, for Businessweek to pause its ranking–part of which is based on employment statistics that are more than a year old. It is an entirely another thing for U.S. News & World Report, the most followed MBA ranking in North America, or the Financial Times, the most influential ranking in Europe and Asia, to halt publication of their rankings. Both of these media organizations gather freshly issued metrics that help inform the applicant market, allowing candidates to compare and contrast these schools far beyond any numerical rank they are given.
In fact, the release of those metrics, made uniform by the reporting requirements imposed on schools by U.S. News and the FT, is especially critical in this year made turbulent by the coronavirus outbreak and the global recession. Transparency is more critical today than ever before. Applicants should have access to timely metrics that will likely show which schools have best weathered the storm at hand. ...
Bob Morse, chief data strategist for U.S. News, has told Poets&Quants that “the team at U.S. News continues to monitor the unprecedented disruptions to business schools themselves, their current students and prospective students caused by COVID 19. As a result, we’re still reviewing our strategies for both our next U.S. News Full-time and Part-time Best Business Schools rankings and fall 2020 data collection.”
May 12, 2020 in Coronavirus, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
U.S. News Law School Academic Reputation Scores, 1998-2020
Robert L. Jones (Northern Illinois), Academic Reputation Scores for Law Schools Rise Significantly in 2020:
This Article summarizes the results of the U.S. News & World Report rankings published in 2020 with respect to the academic reputation scores of law schools. In addition to analyzing the most recent results for the U.S. News rankings, the Article supplements the more extensive longitudinal study published by this author in 2013. The Article also includes updated appendices from the prior study that catalog the U.S. News academic reputation scores for every law school between 1998 and 2020.
May 5, 2020 in Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Ed Scholarship, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
Saturday, May 2, 2020
U.S. News Law School Rankings And College Football
Noah Chauvin (J.D. 2019, William & Mary), Finally, a Use for the U.S. News Law School Rankings, 11 Cal. L. Rev. Online 1 (2020):
The U.S. News & World Report law school rankings are highly influential among people applying to law school. Nonetheless, they are widely panned among the legal community for the often-arbitrary criteria they use to distinguish between law schools. In this essay, I seek to rescue the rankings from this derision by proposing a novel use for them: picking the winner of college football games against the spread.
May 2, 2020 in Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
Friday, May 1, 2020
The 250 Most-Cited Legal Scholars
HeinOnline, The 250 Most-Cited Legal Scholars:
The following list is calculated based on an analysis of all articles in HeinOnline. We then ranked each author in each category: number of times cited by articles, number of times cited by articles written in the past 10 years, number of times cited by articles written in the past 12-24 months, number of times cited by cases, and number of times accessed and averaged the rankings to produce this list of the 250 authors that scored the highest when averaging all categories.
- Sunstein, C. R.
- Posner, Richard A.
- Prosser, William L.
- Lemley, Mark
- Kerr, Orin S.
- Easterbrook, Frank
- Friendly, Henry J.
- Crenshaw, Kimberle
- Fallon, Richard H. Jr.
- Eskridge Jr., William N.
- Coffee, John C.
- Frankfurter, Felix
- Amar, Akhil R.
- Epstein, Richard
- Chemerinsky, Erwin
- Merrill, Thomas W.
- Scalia, Antonin
- Schauer, F.
- Pound, Roscoe
- Eisenberg, Theodore
- Redish, Martin
- Miller, Geoffrey
- Manning, John F.
- Monaghan, Henry
- Volokh, Eugene
- McConnell, Michael
- Posner, Eric
- Brandeis, Louis D.
- Fischel, Daniel R.
- Warren, Samuel D.
- Tushnet, Mark
- Siegel, Reva
- Brennan, William J. Jr.
- Resnik, Judith
- Strine, Leo E. Jr.
- Langbein, John H.
- Imwinkelreid, Edward J.
- Fuller, L. L.
- Miller, Arthur
- Scott, Robert
- Issacharoff, Sam
- Farber, Dan
- Delgado, Richard
- James, Fleming Jr.
- Bebchuk, Lucian
- Solove, Daniel J.
- Tribe, Laurence H.
- Vermeule, Adrian
- Balkin, J. M.
- Laycock, Douglas
May 1, 2020 in Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Ed Scholarship, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, April 30, 2020
The Top 100 Law Schools, Based On 5-, 10-, And 15-Year Rolling Average U.S. News Rankings
Bradley A. Areheart (Tennessee), The Top 100 Law Reviews: A Reference Guide Based on Historical USNWR Data:
The best proxy for how other law professors react and respond to publishing in main, or flagship, law reviews is the US News and World Report (USNWR) rankings. This paper utilizes historical USNWR data to rank the top 100 law reviews. The USNWR rankings are important in shaping many – if not most – law professors’ perceptions about the relative strength of a law school (and derivatively, the home law review). This document contains a chart that is sorted by the 10-year rolling average for each school, but it also contains the 5-year and 15-year rolling averages. This paper also describes my methodology and responds to a series of frequently asked questions. [Were there any ties? If two law school’s 10-year rolling averages were within 2/10 of a point, I tied them and then attempted to break those ties based on the current year’s peer reputation scores. You’ll see that where there was a tie, I have included the peer rep scores in parentheses for those schools. If the peer rep scores were the same, I allowed the tie to remain.] The document was updated in April 2020.
Here are the Top 75 law schools based on their 10-year rolling average overall U.S. News ranking:
Rank | School | 10-Year Rank |
1 | Yale | 1.0 |
2 | Stanford | 2.3 |
3 | Harvard | 2.5 |
4 | Columbia (4.7) | 4.3 |
5 | Chicago (4.6) | 4.2 |
6 | NYU | 6.0 |
7 | Pennsylvania | 7.0 |
8 | Virginia | 8.0 |
9 | UC-Berkeley (4.5) | 8.9 |
10 | Michigan (4.4) | 8.9 |
11 | Duke | 10.5 |
12 | Northwestern | 11.2 |
13 | Cornell | 13.1 |
14 | Georgetown | 13.9 |
15 | Texas | 15.1 |
16 | UCLA | 15.8 |
17 | Vanderbilt | 16.6 |
18 | Washington Univ. (3.7) | 18.5 |
19 | USC (3.6) | 18.4 |
20 | Minnesota | 20.4 |
21 | Notre Dame | 22.5 |
22 | George Washington | 22.7 |
23 | Emory | 23.1 |
24 | Boston University | 23.8 |
25 | Iowa | 25.2 |
26 | UC-Irvine | 26.2 |
27 | Alabama | 26.7 |
28 | Arizona State | 28.0 |
29 | Indiana (Maurer) | 29.5 |
30 | Boston College | 29.8 |
31 | Washington | 31.1 |
32 | Georgia | 31.5 |
33 | Washington & Lee | 32.4 |
34 | Wisconsin | 32.7 |
35 | William & Mary | 32.9 |
36 | UC-Davis | 33.2 |
37 | Ohio State | 33.9 |
38 | Fordham | 34.3 |
39 | North Carolina | 34.7 |
40 | Wake Forest | 37.0 |
41 | Illinois | 37.7 |
42 | BYU | 39.6 |
43 | Arizona | 42.0 |
44 | Florida (3.3) | 42.2 |
45 | George Mason (2.7) | 42.2 |
46 | Colorado | 43.1 |
47 | Utah | 45.6 |
48 | Maryland | 45.9 |
49 | Florida State (3.1) | 48.7 |
50 | SMU (2.7) | 48.6 |
51 | Tulane | 49.6 |
52 | Baylor | 52.2 |
53 | UC-Hastings | 53.0 |
54 | Temple | 54.2 |
55 | Richmond | 54.9 |
56 | Houston | 55.3 |
57 | Pepperdine | 56.1 |
58 | Connecticut | 56.4 |
59 | Cardozo | 60.3 |
60 | Georgia State | 62.3 |
61 | Tennessee (2.7) | 62.6 |
62 | Seton Hall (2.5) | 62.7 |
63 | Kentucky | 63.5 |
64 | Case Western | 65.0 |
65 | Loyola-L.A. | 65.4 |
66 | Penn State (Dickinson) | 66.5 |
67 | Miami | 68.2 |
68 | UNLV | 68.4 |
69 | Oklahoma (2.5) | 68.8 |
69 | Penn State (Univ. Park) (2.5) | 68.8 |
71 | Nebraska | 69.1 |
72 | American | 69.5 |
73 | Denver | 69.7 |
74 | Missouri | 70.8 |
75 | Kansas | 73.0 |
April 30, 2020 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Ed Scholarship, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
2020 World Law School Rankings
Quacquarelli Symonds has released the 2020 World Law School Rankings as part of its World University Rankings. The methodology is 50% academic reputation, 30% employer reputation, 15% h-index per faculty member, and 5% citations per paper. The rankings consist of 300 law schools, 48 in the United States. Here are the U.S. law schools, along with each school's position in the latest SSRN Top 750 Law School Faculty Rankings -- Total Downloads):
QS Ranking | School | SSRN Ranking |
1 | Harvard | 1 |
4 | Yale | 5 |
5 | Stanford | 2 |
7 | UC-Berkeley | 4 |
8 | Columbia | 6 |
9 | NYU | 3 |
11 | Chicago | 7 |
18 | Georgetown | 9 |
26 | UCLA | 15 |
29 | Michigan | 13 |
31 | Penn | 11 |
32 | Duke | 18 |
41 | Cornell | 27 |
46 | Northwestern | 14 |
51-100 | American | 44 |
51-100 | Boston University | 29 |
51-100 | George Washington | 8 |
51-100 | Texas | 31 |
51-100 | Virginia | 24 |
101-150 | Fordham | 17 |
101-150 | Notre Dame | 55 |
101-150 | UC-Irvine | 28 |
101-150 | USC | 30 |
101-150 | Washington | 66 |
101-150 | Washington Univ. | 41 |
101-150 | Wisconsin | 102 |
151-200 | Boston College | 84 |
151-200 | Florida | 53 |
151-200 | Michigan State | 76 |
151-200 | North Carolina | 68 |
201-250 | Florida State | 51 |
201-250 | George Mason | 20 |
201-250 | Illinois | 33 |
201-250 | Loyola-Chicago | 65 |
201-250 | Minnesota | 26 |
201-250 | Ohio State | 37 |
201-250 | Penn State (Univ. Park) | 96 |
201-250 | UC-Davis | 32 |
201-250 | Vanderbilt | 16 |
251-300 | Arizona State | 57 |
251-300 | CUNY | 167 |
251-300 | Arizona | 46 |
251-300 | Colorado | 71 |
251-300 | Emory | 56 |
251-300 | Indiana (Maurer) | 34 |
251-300 | Iowa | 106 |
251-300 | UIC-John Marshall | 162 |
April 30, 2020 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
Monday, April 27, 2020
GMAC, Accreditors Seek To Postpone Business School Rankings During COVID-19
Bloomberg Businessweek
The Economist
Forbes
Financial Times
QS
US News & World Report
This has been an unprecedented few months for our world. As we all continue to navigate the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation, our first thought is for the safety and well-being of our frontline healthcare professionals and everyone who continues to be impacted by these difficult circumstances.
The reach of COVID-19 knows no boundaries:
- Business schools and students are dealing with questions of when and how upcoming classes will begin, as all formats shift online.
- MBA and business master’s graduates, poised to join a historically strong job market with record-high salaries for MBA’s, now find themselves dealing with uncertainty.
- While mobility has become a significant issue over the past few years, the current environment has effectively halted cross-border travel, a reality that will not resolve itself quickly. Accepted students face uncertainty about obtaining visas and getting to campus for the start of their chosen program.
- Governments around the world are grappling with how to manage their respective economies; commerce has come to a halt.
Business school deans and administrators have always understood the impact outside forces have on their mission to develop diverse, high-level talent in their classrooms. Traditionally, such forces have included economic fluctuations, trade wars, advances in technology, and political factors.
The forces we face today are extraordinary.
As industry leaders representing business schools and candidates, AACSB [Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business], EFMD [European Foundation for Management Development] and GMAC [Graduate Management Admission Council] understand and appreciate the impact COVID-19 has had and will continue to have on the admissions process, coupled with the economic uncertainty for graduates and potential employers. Given this new normal, we need to work together to mitigate the negative impact of the crisis for schools and students around the world. Therefore, we strongly advocate that all rankings institutions postpone their work and publication on business school rankings, to provide business schools worldwide the opportunity to rebound in these tumultuous circumstances.
April 27, 2020 in Coronavirus, Legal Ed News, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Law School Rankings By Debt-To-Income Ratios Of Graduates
What Law Grads Earn, Nat'l Jurist, Spr. 2020, at 16:
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Education has unveiled median salaries earned by first-year graduates [in the Class of 2016].
Here are the Top 50 law schools with the lowest average debt-to-income ratios of their graduates with federal student loan debt:
Rank | School | Ratio |
1 | Stanford | 0.77 |
2 | Harvard | 0.84 |
3 | Duke | 0.85 |
4 | Chicago | 0.86 |
4 | Penn | 0.86 |
6 | Cornell | 0.88 |
7 | BYU | 0.91 |
7 | Northwestern | 0.91 |
9 | Columbia | 0.92 |
10 | Yale | 0.98 |
11 | Iowa | 0.99 |
12 | Connecticut | 1.01 |
13 | Washington University | 1.02 |
14 | NYU | 1.05 |
14 | Virginia | 1.05 |
16 | Wisconsin | 1.10 |
17 | Georgia State | 1.11 |
18 | UC-Berkeley | 1.12 |
19 | Boston College | 1.14 |
19 | Michigan | 1.14 |
19 | Temple | 1.14 |
22 | Nebraska | 1.16 |
22 | Tennessee | 1.16 |
22 | Texas Tech | 1.16 |
22 | Wayne State | 1.16 |
26 | Texas | 1.18 |
27 | Arkansas-Fayetteville | 1.19 |
27 | Vanderbilt | 1.19 |
29 | Mitchell Hamline | 1.21 |
30 | North Dakota | 1.26 |
30 | UCLA | 1.26 |
32 | Kansas | 1.27 |
33 | Kentucky | 1.28 |
34 | Mississippi | 1.32 |
35 | Alabama | 1.33 |
36 | Illinois | 1.34 |
37 | Houston | 1.36 |
38 | Baylor | 1.37 |
38 | Boston University | 1.37 |
40 | Utah | 1.38 |
41 | Hawaii | 1.39 |
41 | Oklahoma | 1.39 |
43 | Louisiana State | 1.41 |
44 | CUNY | 1.43 |
44 | Georgia | 1.43 |
44 | UNLV | 1.43 |
47 | Missouri | 1.45 |
47 | USC | 1.45 |
49 | Villanova | 1.47 |
50 | Tulsa | 1.48 |
April 16, 2020 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (1)
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Law School Rankings By Debt Of Graduates
What Law Grads Earn, Nat'l Jurist, Spr. 2020, at 16:
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Education has unveiled median salaries earned by first-year graduates [in the Class of 2016].
Here are the Top 50 law schools with the lowest average debt loads of their graduates with federal student loan debt:
Rank | School | Debt |
1 | BYU | $51,250 |
2 | Nebraska | $59,124 |
3 | Arkansas-Fayetteville | $61,500 |
3 | North Dakota | $61,500 |
3 | Tennessee | $61,500 |
3 | Wisconsin | $61,500 |
7 | Iowa | $62,249 |
8 | Mississippi | $64,300 |
9 | Mitchell Hamline | $64,429 |
10 | Kansas | $66,415 |
11 | Wayne State | $67,640 |
12 | Alabama | $68,992 |
13 | Connecticut | $69,085 |
14 | Georgia State | $69,200 |
15 | Temple | $69,583 |
16 | Kentucky | $69,860 |
17 | Texas Tech | $70,006 |
18 | Louisiana State | $71,422 |
19 | Liberty | $71,534 |
20 | Missouri | $71,603 |
21 | Akron | $73,756 |
22 | Oklahoma | $74,250 |
23 | Tulsa | $75,326 |
24 | Cincinnati | $76,173 |
25 | Memphis | $76,622 |
26 | Montana | $76,666 |
27 | Arkansas-Little Rock | $77,208 |
28 | Hawaii | $77,849 |
29 | CUNY | $78,224 |
30 | South Dakota | $79,143 |
31 | Utah | $79,768 |
32 | N. Kentucky | $79,951 |
33 | Florida State | $81,159 |
34 | Arizona | $81,178 |
35 | Washington Univ. | $81,500 |
36 | Toledo | $81,546 |
37 | Quinnipiac | $82,000 |
37 | Rutgers | $82,000 |
39 | Washburn | $82,194 |
40 | Georgia | $82,480 |
41 | Case Western | $82,570 |
42 | N. Illinois | $83,660 |
43 | Villanova | $83,761 |
44 | Cleveland-Marshall | $83,868 |
45 | New Mexico | $83,999 |
46 | Wyoming | $84,032 |
47 | West Virginia | $84,227 |
48 | St. Thomas (MN) | $84,261 |
49 | Duquesne | $84,428 |
50 | Florida | $84,508 |
April 15, 2020 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Law School Rankings By Salary Of Graduates
What Law Grads Earn, Nat'l Jurist, Spr. 2020, at 16:
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Education has unveiled median salaries earned by first-year graduates [in the Class of 2016].
Here are the Top 50 law schools with the highest average salaries of their graduates:
Rank | School | Income |
1 | Columbia | $180,300 |
2 | NYU | $175,800 |
3 | Cornell | $175,200 |
4 | Penn | $175,100 |
5 | Northwestern | $171,900 |
6 | Chicago | $170,500 |
7 | Duke | $162,200 |
8 | Harvard | $158,200 |
9 | Stanford | $156,700 |
10 | Virginia | $151,500 |
11 | UC-Berkeley | $135,400 |
12 | Yale | $128,900 |
13 | Michigan | $126,800 |
14 | Vanderbilt | $108,800 |
15 | Georgetown | $105,000 |
16 | Fordham | $99,000 |
17 | UCLA | $96,600 |
18 | Texas | $90,100 |
19 | USC | $89,300 |
20 | Boston College | $88,300 |
21 | Boston University | $81,200 |
22 | Washington Univ. | $79,800 |
23 | SMU | $75,600 |
24 | Notre Dame | $75,500 |
25 | George Washington | $74,300 |
26 | UC-Irvine | $68,700 |
27 | Connecticut | $68,600 |
28 | Illinois | $67,700 |
29 | Houston | $67,600 |
29 | UC-Hastings | $67,600 |
31 | UC-Davis | $67,100 |
32 | George Mason | $66,900 |
33 | Baylor | $66,800 |
33 | Emory | $66,800 |
35 | Santa Clara | $66,200 |
36 | Brooklyn | $66,100 |
37 | Cardozo | $66,000 |
38 | St. John's | $65,900 |
38 | UNLV | $65,900 |
40 | Loyola-Chicago | $64,400 |
41 | Washington & Lee | $64,200 |
42 | Loyola-Los Angeles | $63,700 |
43 | Washington | $63,000 |
44 | Iowa | $62,700 |
45 | Georgia State | $62,400 |
46 | San Diego | $62,100 |
47 | Pepperdine | $61,400 |
48 | Temple | $61,300 |
49 | Pace | $60,700 |
50 | Texas Tech | $60,200 |
- Law School Rankings By Salary Of Graduates
- Law School Rankings By Debt Of Graduates
- Law School Rankings By Debt-To-Income Ratios Of Graduates
April 14, 2020 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (4)
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
2021 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings
Following up on yesterday's post, 2021 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings:
Here are the law schools whose U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Ranking most exceeds their overall U.S. News Ranking:
School | Specialty Rank | Overall Rank | Difference | |
1 | Suffolk | 75 | 136 | +61 |
2 | American | 18 | 76 | +58 |
3 | Seattle | 72 | 129 | +57 |
4 | Pacific | 94 | 148 | +54 |
5 | UIC-John Marshall | 97 | 140 | +43 |
6 | Brooklyn | 47 | 83 | +36 |
6 | Indiana (McKinney) | 86 | 122 | +36 |
6 | UC-Hastings | 23 | 59 | +36 |
9 | Denver | 40 | 74 | +34 |
9 | Pace | 102 | 136 | +34 |
11 | New York Law School | 98 | 129 | +31 |
12 | Baltimore | 96 | 126 | +30 |
12 | Santa Clara | 77 | 107 | +30 |
14 | Chicago-Kent | 54 | 83 | +29 |
14 | Mitchell Hamline | 112 | 141 | +29 |
16 | Case Western | 50 | 76 | +26 |
16 | DePaul | 92 | 118 | +26 |
18 | Georgia State | 51 | 76 | +25 |
18 | Loyola-New Orleans | 101 | 126 | +25 |
20 | Loyola-L.A. | 38 | 62 | +24 |
20 | Missouri (KC) | 109 | 133 | +24 |
22 | Arkansas (Little Rock) | 125 | 148 | +23 |
23 | Widener (DE) | 126 | 148 | +22 |
24 | San Francisco | 127 | 148 | +21 |
24 | Syracuse | 90 | 111 | +21 |
24 | Temple | 35 | 56 | +21 |
27 | Howard | 87 | 107 | +20 |
28 | Rutgers | 58 | 76 | +18 |
29 | Hofstra | 85 | 102 | +17 |
30 | Ohio State | 22 | 38 | +16 |
30 | South Carolina | 80 | 96 | +16 |
30 | UC-Irvine | 11 | 27 | +16 |
33 | Loyola-Chicago | 55 | 70 | +15 |
33 | Miami | 52 | 67 | +15 |
35 | Lewis & Clark | 79 | 93 | +14 |
35 | Maryland | 33 | 47 | +14 |
35 | Oregon | 74 | 88 | +14 |
35 | San Diego | 69 | 83 | +14 |
35 | Stetson | 91 | 105 | +14 |
40 | Georgetown | 1 | 14 | +13 |
40 | Golden Gate | 135 | 148 | +13 |
40 | Vermont | 128 | 141 | +13 |
43 | Houston | 45 | 56 | +11 |
44 | George Washington | 13 | 23 | +10 |
44 | New Mexico | 89 | 99 | +10 |
46 | Drexel | 84 | 93 | +9 |
46 | Southwestern | 139 | 148 | +9 |
46 | Texas | 7 | 16 | +9 |
46 | UNLV | 53 | 62 | +9 |
50 | Fordham | 19 | 27 | +8 |
50 | UC-Davis | 30 | 38 | +8 |
50 | Willamette | 133 | 141 | +8 |
Here are the law schools whose U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Ranking most trails their overall U.S. News Ranking:
April 8, 2020 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
2021 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings
The new 2021 U.S. News Specialty Rankings include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 194 law schools. Here are the Top 100 law schools, determined by giving equal weight to each of the 13 separate specialty rankings:
- Business/Corporate Law
- Clinical Law
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts/Commercial Law
- Criminal Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Environmental Law
- Health Care Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Law
- Legal Writing
- Tax Law
- Trial Advocacy
School | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Avg. | |
1 | Georgetown | 8 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 25 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 9.2 |
2 | NYU | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 48 | 3 | 1 | 76 | 1 | 31 | 15.1 |
3 | Stanford | 5 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 92 | 7 | 44 | 16.2 |
4 | Michigan | 12 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 37 | 37 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 59 | 18.9 |
5 | Northwestern | 12 | 6 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 49 | 48 | 21 | 21 | 24 | 3 | 19 | 19.3 |
6 | UC-Berkeley | 4 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 1 | 29 | 1 | 11 | 127 | 23 | 15 | 20.3 |
7 | Texas | 17 | 32 | 11 | 8 | 17 | 16 | 26 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 44 | 15 | 36 | 21.0 |
8 | Harvard | 1 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 18 | 2 | 167 | 7 | 36 | 21.6 |
9 | UCLA | 8 | 27 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 25 | 4 | 32 | 25 | 17 | 101 | 5 | 23 | 23.2 |
10 | Duke | 12 | 54 | 9 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 19 | 25 | 12 | 9 | 44 | 18 | 78 | 25.4 |
11 | UC-Irvine | 37 | 8 | 19 | 29 | 17 | 22 | 33 | 40 | 25 | 25 | 11 | 11 | 65 | 26.3 |
12 | Penn | 6 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 32 | 41 | 22 | 8 | 14 | 101 | 15 | 78 | 28.2 |
13 | George Washington | 30 | 22 | 25 | 34 | 22 | 44 | 15 | 32 | 5 | 8 | 44 | 42 | 50 | 28.7 |
14 | Washington Univ. | 26 | 14 | 19 | 21 | 26 | 25 | 73 | 29 | 45 | 17 | 51 | 23 | 12 | 29.3 |
15 | Virginia | 8 | 82 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 18 | 26 | 46 | 31 | 11 | 76 | 5 | 78 | 31.2 |
16 | Columbia | 1 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 37 | 6 | 46 | 13 | 4 | 154 | 10 | 105 | 31.4 |
17 | Yale | 8 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 37 | 20 | 16 | 62 | 4 | 167 | 11 | 65 | 31.5 |
18 | American | 68 | 2 | 44 | 51 | 26 | 48 | 37 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 51 | 55 | 4 | 31.6 |
19 | Fordham | 17 | 17 | 25 | 23 | 17 | 13 | 63 | 93 | 21 | 21 | 101 | 32 | 9 | 34.8 |
20 | Boston University | 19 | 32 | 19 | 18 | 30 | 56 | 55 | 5 | 10 | 32 | 51 | 21 | 105 | 34.8 |
21 | North Carolina | 26 | 44 | 25 | 18 | 22 | 48 | 37 | 22 | 55 | 46 | 7 | 26 | 78 | 34.9 |
22 | Ohio State | 37 | 69 | 28 | 23 | 15 | 2 | 55 | 29 | 40 | 43 | 38 | 32 | 44 | 35.0 |
23 | UC-Hastings | 37 | 27 | 44 | 46 | 33 | 13 | 20 | 13 | 45 | 28 | 114 | 23 | 20 | 35.6 |
24 | Cornell | 16 | 44 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 22 | 41 | 71 | 40 | 13 | 70 | 42 | 65 | 36.1 |
25 | Minnesota | 19 | 32 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 78 | 20 | 19 | 40 | 25 | 76 | 26 | 78 | 36.5 |
26 | Vanderbilt | 12 | 61 | 17 | 17 | 10 | 32 | 17 | 25 | 25 | 14 | 136 | 48 | 65 | 36.8 |
27 | Arizona State | 52 | 61 | 38 | 51 | 33 | 10 | 20 | 22 | 51 | 25 | 7 | 37 | 78 | 37.3 |
28 | Emory | 26 | 69 | 28 | 23 | 33 | 56 | 49 | 40 | 36 | 40 | 44 | 48 | 23 | 39.6 |
29 | Boston College | 26 | 27 | 31 | 29 | 43 | 48 | 33 | 48 | 31 | 40 | 38 | 18 | 105 | 39.8 |
30 | UC-Davis | 23 | 54 | 19 | 23 | 22 | 25 | 20 | 54 | 36 | 32 | 136 | 26 | 50 | 40.0 |
31 | Chicago | 7 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 48 | 63 | 71 | 40 | 17 | 154 | 7 | 78 | 40.2 |
32 | Indiana (Maurer) | 23 | 82 | 44 | 23 | 43 | 56 | 31 | 40 | 21 | 28 | 51 | 20 | 78 | 41.5 |
33 | Maryland | 61 | 6 | 44 | 46 | 57 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 79 | 69 | 63 | 63 | 31 | 42.2 |
34 | William & Mary | 37 | 61 | 19 | 29 | 17 | 18 | 41 | 48 | 45 | 32 | 101 | 63 | 44 | 42.7 |
35 | Temple | 52 | 86 | 59 | 59 | 53 | 25 | 85 | 17 | 71 | 17 | 12 | 37 | 2 | 44.2 |
36 | Notre Dame | 37 | 44 | 18 | 34 | 43 | 56 | 55 | 102 | 25 | 28 | 76 | 45 | 25 | 45.2 |
37 | Wisconsin | 48 | 44 | 38 | 29 | 33 | 37 | 41 | 40 | 79 | 32 | 51 | 55 | 78 | 46.5 |
38 | Loyola-L.A. | 48 | 69 | 54 | 63 | 33 | 67 | 85 | 48 | 31 | 57 | 44 | 11 | 5 | 47.3 |
39 | Florida | 37 | 82 | 67 | 39 | 33 | 37 | 20 | 61 | 71 | 69 | 76 | 3 | 25 | 47.7 |
40 | Denver | 68 | 8 | 59 | 63 | 43 | 56 | 26 | 93 | 79 | 52 | 7 | 63 | 9 | 48.2 |
41 | Washington | 61 | 44 | 59 | 39 | 43 | 99 | 31 | 32 | 18 | 43 | 51 | 42 | 65 | 48.2 |
42 | Arizona | 59 | 61 | 38 | 46 | 57 | 86 | 33 | 32 | 55 | 36 | 24 | 68 | 50 | 49.6 |
42 | Colorado | 30 | 96 | 44 | 51 | 30 | 72 | 10 | 71 | 25 | 52 | 51 | 63 | 50 | 49.6 |
42 | Georgia | 23 | 32 | 31 | 39 | 33 | 99 | 85 | 40 | 71 | 21 | 101 | 45 | 25 | 49.6 |
45 | Houston | 59 | 69 | 71 | 34 | 64 | 99 | 26 | 3 | 5 | 46 | 101 | 26 | 44 | 49.8 |
46 | Wake Forest | 37 | 86 | 54 | 39 | 29 | 99 | 41 | 17 | 95 | 69 | 6 | 55 | 25 | 50.2 |
47 | Brooklyn | 30 | 32 | 35 | 34 | 26 | 72 | 106 | 90 | 62 | 46 | 32 | 48 | 59 | 51.7 |
48 | Tulane | 37 | 39 | 54 | 34 | 53 | 37 | 17 | 61 | 62 | 28 | 148 | 63 | 44 | 52.1 |
49 | USC | 22 | 82 | 31 | 18 | 33 | 32 | 96 | 48 | 55 | 46 | 114 | 15 | 96 | 52.9 |
50 | Case Western | 61 | 44 | 59 | 51 | 64 | 67 | 55 | 9 | 40 | 24 | 92 | 98 | 50 | 54.9 |
51 | Georgia State | 52 | 27 | 44 | 86 | 57 | 56 | 85 | 2 | 62 | 98 | 92 | 55 | 25 | 57.0 |
52 | Miami | 52 | 32 | 59 | 46 | 53 | 78 | 55 | 93 | 55 | 36 | 101 | 26 | 59 | 57.3 |
53 | UNLV | 78 | 39 | 69 | 51 | 68 | 6 | 85 | 32 | 62 | 106 | 1 | 48 | 105 | 57.7 |
54 | Chicago-Kent | 52 | 86 | 54 | 72 | 74 | 86 | 85 | 54 | 13 | 75 | 32 | 75 | 5 | 58.7 |
55 | Loyola-Chicago | 75 | 54 | 59 | 72 | 82 | 56 | 126 | 3 | 45 | 69 | 76 | 48 | 12 | 59.8 |
55 | Washington & Lee | 52 | 69 | 44 | 51 | 43 | 44 | 79 | 40 | 90 | 36 | 101 | 32 | 96 | 59.8 |
57 | Cardozo | 52 | 61 | 38 | 59 | 30 | 5 | 106 | 114 | 13 | 75 | 114 | 48 | 65 | 60.0 |
58 | Rutgers | 83 | 22 | 59 | 81 | 57 | 83 | 63 | 54 | 85 | 52 | 18 | 80 | 59 | 61.2 |
59 | Florida State | 48 | 96 | 44 | 39 | 53 | 99 | 15 | 54 | 79 | 62 | 136 | 37 | 36 | 61.4 |
60 | Utah | 30 | 106 | 44 | 39 | 33 | 99 | 9 | 32 | 71 | 62 | 136 | 55 | 121 | 64.4 |
61 | Texas A&M | 68 | 54 | 111 | 69 | 119 | 6 | 37 | 102 | 8 | 62 | 29 | 75 | 105 | 65.0 |
62 | Pepperdine | 61 | 39 | 44 | 59 | 91 | 3 | 96 | 114 | 100 | 46 | 114 | 37 | 50 | 65.7 |
63 | Iowa | 30 | 86 | 38 | 46 | 43 | 99 | 106 | 78 | 62 | 57 | 51 | 68 | 105 | 66.8 |
64 | Northeastern | 113 | 22 | 71 | 107 | 57 | 48 | 106 | 11 | 21 | 62 | 38 | 110 | 105 | 67.0 |
65 | Villanova | 78 | 69 | 83 | 86 | 74 | 90 | 79 | 61 | 45 | 91 | 29 | 37 | 50 | 67.1 |
66 | Alabama | 61 | 61 | 31 | 29 | 43 | 99 | 63 | 102 | 100 | 98 | 127 | 32 | 31 | 67.5 |
67 | Illinois | 30 | 117 | 35 | 23 | 33 | 93 | 79 | 90 | 51 | 83 | 101 | 45 | 105 | 68.1 |
68 | SMU | 68 | 61 | 71 | 69 | 43 | 72 | 96 | 61 | 55 | 46 | 136 | 48 | 65 | 68.5 |
69 | San Diego | 30 | 121 | 28 | 72 | 57 | 99 | 79 | 71 | 31 | 62 | 166 | 21 | 59 | 68.9 |
70 | BYU | 19 | 136 | 54 | 39 | 68 | 67 | 55 | 144 | 55 | 75 | 76 | 32 | 96 | 70.5 |
71 | Pittsburgh | 75 | 121 | 69 | 69 | 57 | 99 | 85 | 32 | 51 | 43 | 76 | 26 | 131 | 71.8 |
72 | Seattle | 83 | 20 | 71 | 107 | 91 | 99 | 79 | 78 | 62 | 91 | 3 | 80 | 78 | 72.5 |
73 | Seton Hall | 83 | 69 | 71 | 81 | 82 | 67 | 116 | 13 | 71 | 57 | 92 | 68 | 78 | 72.9 |
74 | Oregon | 61 | 121 | 71 | 63 | 74 | 10 | 6 | 144 | 100 | 98 | 2 | 68 | 131 | 73.0 |
75 | Suffolk | 95 | 14 | 136 | 116 | 111 | 22 | 96 | 61 | 45 | 106 | 5 | 132 | 20 | 73.8 |
76 | Richmond | 37 | 121 | 35 | 63 | 43 | 99 | 63 | 144 | 25 | 69 | 101 | 55 | 105 | 73.8 |
77 | Santa Clara | 75 | 121 | 93 | 98 | 91 | 44 | 55 | 102 | 4 | 40 | 44 | 68 | 131 | 74.3 |
78 | Tennessee | 37 | 17 | 83 | 63 | 74 | 99 | 106 | 78 | 123 | 118 | 32 | 75 | 65 | 74.6 |
79 | Lewis & Clark | 95 | 86 | 71 | 107 | 91 | 48 | 1 | 122 | 55 | 69 | 18 | 92 | 121 | 75.1 |
80 | South Carolina | 83 | 39 | 93 | 86 | 74 | 99 | 63 | 61 | 114 | 106 | 70 | 55 | 36 | 75.3 |
81 | Kansas | 78 | 86 | 83 | 51 | 68 | 25 | 63 | 122 | 100 | 91 | 51 | 80 | 121 | 78.4 |
82 | St. John's | 68 | 117 | 71 | 72 | 74 | 37 | 152 | 102 | 71 | 57 | 32 | 132 | 36 | 78.5 |
83 | Connecticut | 61 | 96 | 59 | 59 | 82 | 72 | 63 | 61 | 108 | 57 | 76 | 68 | 160 | 78.6 |
84 | Drexel | 78 | 54 | 71 | 98 | 100 | 83 | 130 | 32 | 108 | 103 | 18 | 132 | 15 | 78.6 |
85 | Hofstra | 92 | 69 | 83 | 90 | 68 | 93 | 130 | 61 | 95 | 62 | 76 | 89 | 36 | 80.3 |
86 | Indiana (McKinney) | 95 | 86 | 83 | 81 | 111 | 99 | 85 | 15 | 85 | 83 | 24 | 98 | 121 | 82.0 |
87 | Howard | 92 | 44 | 71 | 72 | 64 | 67 | 143 | 122 | 62 | 106 | 63 | 120 | 59 | 83.5 |
88 | Michigan State | 68 | 86 | 83 | 63 | 91 | 93 | 96 | 114 | 71 | 75 | 101 | 98 | 65 | 84.9 |
89 | New Mexico | 113 | 17 | 111 | 81 | 100 | 99 | 33 | 78 | 137 | 106 | 70 | 92 | 78 | 85.8 |
90 | Syracuse | 95 | 96 | 111 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 73 | 78 | 85 | 83 | 76 | 110 | 15 | 86.1 |
91 | Stetson | 95 | 96 | 111 | 72 | 100 | 72 | 106 | 122 | 137 | 106 | 3 | 110 | 1 | 87.0 |
92 | DePaul | 95 | 106 | 93 | 98 | 82 | 97 | 152 | 25 | 36 | 91 | 92 | 92 | 78 | 87.5 |
93 | George Mason | 48 | 155 | 38 | 51 | 74 | 99 | 136 | 114 | 31 | 75 | 148 | 80 | 105 | 88.8 |
94 | Pacific | 106 | 136 | 146 | 98 | 125 | 56 | 73 | 102 | 114 | 36 | 32 | 126 | 9 | 89.2 |
95 | Missouri (Columbia) | 88 | 127 | 83 | 72 | 82 | 3 | 136 | 90 | 90 | 91 | 136 | 98 | 65 | 89.3 |
96 | Baltimore | 123 | 14 | 93 | 120 | 100 | 78 | 116 | 122 | 95 | 75 | 38 | 75 | 149 | 92.2 |
97 | UIC-John Marshall | 135 | 69 | 136 | 148 | 111 | 90 | 152 | 122 | 36 | 75 | 7 | 98 | 36 | 93.5 |
98 | New York Law School | 95 | 54 | 93 | 156 | 100 | 78 | 136 | 78 | 62 | 83 | 38 | 98 | 145 | 93.5 |
99 | St. Louis | 88 | 86 | 71 | 90 | 100 | 99 | 159 | 1 | 90 | 98 | 127 | 80 | 131 | 93.8 |
100 | Marquette | 88 | 127 | 93 | 90 | 91 | 10 | 126 | 144 | 79 | 118 | 12 | 126 | 121 | 94.2 |
If anyone at a law school outside the Top 100 would like the data for their school's rank, email me.
April 7, 2020 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, April 2, 2020
2021 U.S. News Trial Advocacy Rankings
The new 2021 U.S. News Trial Advocacy Rankings include the trial advocacy programs at 188 law schools (the faculty survey had a 52% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
Rank | Score | School |
1 | 4.1 | Stetson |
2 | 4.0 | Baylor |
2 | 4.0 | Temple |
4 | 3.9 | American |
5 | 3.8 | Chicago-Kent |
5 | 3.8 | Loyola-L.A. |
7 | 3.6 | Samford |
7 | 3.6 | South Texas |
9 | 3.5 | Fordham |
9 | 3.5 | Denver |
9 | 3.5 | Pacific |
12 | 3.4 | Georgetown |
12 | 3.4 | Loyola-Chicago |
12 | 3.4 | Washington University |
15 | 3.3 | Campbell |
15 | 3.3 | Drexel |
15 | 3.3 | Syracuse |
15 | 3.3 | UC-Berkeley |
19 | 3.2 | Northwestern |
20 | 3.1 | St. Mary's |
20 | 3.1 | Suffolk |
20 | 3.1 | UC-Hastings |
23 | 3.0 | Emory |
23 | 3.0 | UCLA |
25 | 2.9 | Georgia State |
25 | 2.9 | Akron |
25 | 2.9 | Florida |
25 | 2.9 | Georgia |
25 | 2.9 | Notre Dame |
25 | 2.9 | Wake Forest |
31 | 2.8 | Faulkner |
31 | 2.8 | NYU |
31 | 2.8 | Texas Tech |
31 | 2.8 | Alabama |
31 | 2.8 | Maryland |
36 | 2.7 | Florida State |
36 | 2.7 | Harvard |
36 | 2.7 | Hofstra |
36 | 2.7 | St. John's |
36 | 2.7 | UIC-John Marshall |
36 | 2.7 | Missouri (Kansas City) |
36 | 2.7 | South Carolina |
36 | 2.7 | Texas |
44 | 2.6 | Ohio State |
44 | 2.6 | Pace |
44 | 2.6 | Stanford |
44 | 2.6 | Tulane |
44 | 2.6 | Houston |
44 | 2.6 | William & Mary |
50 | 2.5 | Case Western |
50 | 2.5 | George Washington |
50 | 2.5 | Loyola-New Orleans |
50 | 2.5 | Nova |
50 | 2.5 | Pepperdine |
50 | 2.5 | Arizona |
50 | 2.5 | UC-Davis |
50 | 2.5 | Colorado |
50 | 2.5 | Villanova |
2021 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
April 2, 2020 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
2021 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings
The new 2021 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings include the legal writing programs at 179 law schools (the faculty survey had a 54% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
Rank | Score | School |
1 | 4.3 | UNLV |
2 | 4.2 | Oregon |
3 | 4.1 | Seattle |
3 | 4.1 | Stetson |
5 | 4.0 | Suffolk |
6 | 3.9 | Wake Forest |
7 | 3.8 | Arizona State |
7 | 3.8 | Denver |
7 | 3.8 | UIC-John Marshall |
7 | 3.8 | North Carolina |
11 | 3.7 | UC-Irvine |
12 | 3.6 | Drake |
12 | 3.6 | Georgetown |
12 | 3.6 | Marquette |
12 | 3.6 | Temple |
12 | 3.6 | Texas Tech |
12 | 3.6 | Michigan |
18 | 3.5 | Drexel |
18 | 3.5 | Lewis & Clark |
18 | 3.5 | Mercer |
18 | 3.5 | Nova |
18 | 3.5 | Rutgers |
18 | 3.5 | Washburn |
24 | 3.4 | Indiana (McKinney) |
24 | 3.4 | Northwestern |
24 | 3.4 | Arizona |
24 | 3.4 | Arkansas (Little Rock) |
24 | 3.4 | Missouri (Kansas City) |
29 | 3.3 | Duquesne |
29 | 3.3 | Texas A&M |
29 | 3.3 | Villanova |
32 | 3.2 | Brooklyn |
32 | 3.2 | Chicago-Kent |
32 | 3.2 | St. John's |
32 | 3.2 | Arkansas (Fayetteville) |
32 | 3.2 | Tennessee |
32 | 3.2 | Pacific |
38 | 3.1 | Boston College |
38 | 3.1 | New York Law School |
38 | 3.1 | Northeastern |
38 | 3.1 | Ohio State |
38 | 3.1 | Baltimore |
38 | 3.1 | Memphis |
44 | 3.0 | Duke |
44 | 3.0 | Elon |
44 | 3.0 | Emory |
44 | 3.0 | George Washington |
44 | 3.0 | Loyola-L.A. |
44 | 3.0 | Santa Clara |
44 | 3.0 | Texas |
2021 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
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Tuesday, March 31, 2020
2021 U.S. News International Law Rankings
The new 2021 U.S. News International Law Rankings include the international law programs at 187 law schools (the faculty survey had a 52% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
Rank | Score | School |
1 | 4.7 | NYU |
2 | 4.4 | Harvard |
3 | 4.3 | Georgetown |
4 | 4.2 | American |
4 | 4.2 | Columbia |
4 | 4.2 | Yale |
7 | 4.1 | Michigan |
8 | 4.0 | George Washington |
9 | 3.9 | Duke |
9 | 3.9 | Stanford |
11 | 3.8 | UC-Berkeley |
11 | 3.8 | Virginia |
13 | 3.7 | Cornell |
14 | 3.6 | Penn |
14 | 3.6 | Texas |
14 | 3.6 | Vanderbilt |
17 | 3.5 | Temple |
17 | 3.5 | UCLA |
17 | 3.5 | Chicago |
17 | 3.5 | Washington Univ. |
21 | 3.4 | Fordham |
21 | 3.4 | Northwestern |
21 | 3.4 | Georgia |
24 | 3.3 | Case Western |
25 | 3.2 | Arizona State |
25 | 3.2 | UC-Irvine |
25 | 3.2 | Minnesota |
28 | 3.1 | Indiana (Maurer) |
28 | 3.1 | Tulane |
28 | 3.1 | UC-Hastings |
28 | 3.1 | Notre Dame |
32 | 3.0 | Boston University |
32 | 3.0 | UC-Davis |
32 | 3.0 | Wisconsin |
32 | 3.0 | William & Mary |
36 | 2.9 | Arizona |
36 | 2.9 | Miami |
36 | 2.9 | Pacific |
36 | 2.9 | Washington & Lee |
40 | 2.8 | Boston College |
40 | 2.8 | Emory |
40 | 2.8 | Santa Clara |
43 | 2.7 | Ohio State |
43 | 2.7 | Pittsburgh |
43 | 2.7 | Washington |
46 | 2.6 | Brooklyn |
46 | 2.6 | Pepperdine |
46 | 2.6 | SMU |
46 | 2.6 | Houston |
46 | 2.6 | North Carolina |
46 | 2.6 | USC |
2021 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
March 31, 2020 in Law School Rankings, Legal Ed Rankings, Legal Education | Permalink | Comments (0)