The biggest winners here were Maryland, Pepperdine, and UConn, which moved up five, four, and two places in the 2021 law school rankings, propelling each into the Top 50. The biggest losers here were Wake Forest, Arizona, and UC Davis, with 11-spot, eight-spot, and seven-spot drops, respectively.
At the end of this month, U.S. News & World Report — the de facto regulator of law schools — will release its annual “Best Law School” rankings with a new methodology that accounts for student debt but penalizes racial and socioeconomic diversity.
Each year, the law school world overreacts to slightly shuffled U.S. News rankings, justifying the ranking’s apparent authority and value.
We do not plan to leak the actual U.S. News rankings this year. Additionally, please note that these predictions are based only on publicly available data, and there is a good deal of private data that does not factor into our predictions — over 50% of the rankings comes from that private data.
Published: 15 Mar 2022. U.S. News & World Report recently released the embargoed version of their 2023 (2022 release) rankings, and we can confirm that there have been changes to the methodology used to calculate schools’ overall ranking. First, U.S. News has increased the weight allocated to its bar passage metric.
March 25, 2021 at 02:16 PM 1 minute read Karen Sloan U.S. News & World Report said Thursday that it’s removing a controversial diversity ranking from its law school rankings package that is set to…
Spivey Consulting’s Business Intelligence Director, Justin Kane, analyzed a great deal of law school data to calculate our predicted 2022 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings, below. Remember, these are just predictions! We do not plan to leak the actual U.S. News rankings this year. Additionally, please note that these predictions are based only on …
Once again, the top three law schools are at Yale University, Stanford University and Harvard University, according to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 rankings, released Tuesday. Yale came in…
According to the U.S. News annual survey of full-time law school programs in the 2019-2020 academic year, tuition ranged from $72,465 at the private Columbia University to $13,134 in-state at the …
The biggest winners here were Maryland, Pepperdine, and UConn, which moved up five, four, and two places in the 2021 law school rankings, propelling each into the Top 50. The biggest losers here…
on March 23, 2021 at 11:43 AM At the end of this month, U.S. News & World Report — the de facto regulator of law schools — will release its annual “Best Law School” rankings with a new methodology…
