Over the last few months, we noted the controversy over the rankings by US News and World Report of law schools and the decision of several major law schools not to participate. The magazine went ahead and gathered information without cooperation and its rankings have now emerged for the top 14 schools.
Its news release takes note of the controversy and states that "earlier this year, some law schools chose not to provide their institution’s statistical data to U.S. News. In an effort to provide students with a level playing field for comparison, U.S. News ranked law schools using metrics that are mandatory for disclosure by the American Bar Association. This means that certain factors such as expenditures, at-graduation employment rate and JD graduate indebtedness are no longer included in the formula." Apparently, the full list of ranked schools will appear on April 18th.
RANK SCHOOL
1 Stanford University (tie)
1 Yale University (tie)
3 University of Chicago
4 Harvard University (tie)
4 University of Pennsylvania (Carey) (tie)
6 Duke University (tie)
6 New York University (tie)
8 Columbia University (tie)
8 University of Virginia (tie)
10 Northwestern University (Pritzker) (tie)
10 University of California, Berkeley (tie)
10 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (tie)
13 Cornell University
14 University of California—Los Angeles
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