I previously blogged the lists of the Top 10 law schools in eleven categories posted on Princeton Review’s web site in connection with its publication of the 2011 edition of Best 172 Law Schools (with the University of Cincinnati College of Law again on the cover). The rankings are the result of Princeton Review’s survey of 18,000 students at the 172 law schools, along with school statistics provided by administrators.
I have extracted from the individual profiles of the 172 law schools all of the available data to rank the schools in six categories. I will report each day on one of the ranking categories.
Hours of Study Per Day. From our student survey. The average number of hours students at the school report studying each day.
Here are the law schools where students study the most and the least per day:
School
Hours
School
Hours
1
Baylor
6.46
148
Oklahoma City
4.00
American
5.82
149
NYU
3.98
3
Campbell
5.70
150
San Diego
3.95
Regent
5.70
151
Suffolk
3.93
5
Idaho
5.67
152
Toledo
3.87
6
Capital
5.50
153
Rutgers-Newark
3.85
Cincinnati
5.50
154
Loyola-New Orleans
3.83
Cornell
5.50
South Dakota
3.83
9
Roger Williams
5.35
156
Fordham
3.80
10
Franklin Pierce
5.31
Mississippi College
3.80
11
Ave Maria
5.30
158
Texas
3.74
12
Syracuse
5.26
UC-Berkeley
3.74
13
Pace
5.24
160
Wayne State
3.73
14
Case Western
5.23
161
Duke
3.70
15
Dist. of Columbia
5.20
162
North Dakota
3.63
N. Carolina Central
5.20
163
Florida State
3.59
17
McGeorge
5.18
164
U. Mississippi
3.54
Oregon
5.18
165
Cardozo
3.50
19
Vermont
5.18
Cleveland State
3.50
20
BYU
5.17
Columbia
3.50
21
Thomas Cooley
5.15
Missouri-Columbia
3.50
22
John Marshall
5.12
Oklahoma
3.50
23
Willamette
5.07
Washington U.
3.50
24
Nova
5.04
171
Illinois
1.50
25
Michigan State
5.00
North Carolina
1.50
Seventeen schools did not report this data to the Princeton Review: Albany, Appalachian, Charleston, CUNY, Florida International, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Northern Illinois, Phoenix, Rutgers-Camden, South Texas, St. Thomas (Minneapolis), SUNY-Buffalo, Touro, UNLV, and Yale.
Unfortunately, the Princeton Review did not release the response rate per school, so it is impossible to determine how the rankings are affected by each school’s representation among the respondents.
For prior years’ rankings, see:
