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.
Professors Interesting Rating: Based on law student opinion. We asked law students to rate the quality of teaching at their law schools on a scale from 60 to 99.
Here are the law schools with the most and least interesting professors:
School
Score
School
Score
1
Boston University
99
147
Albany
70
Stanford
99
Missouri-Kansas City
70
3
Chicago
98
St. John’s
70
Duke
98
West Virginia
70
5
Geo.Washington
97
151
Gonzaga
69
Virginia
97
Hofstra
69
7
Loyola-L.A.
96
Loyola-New Orleans
69
Regent
96
154
Cleveland State
68
9
Pepperdine
95
Kentucky
68
Vanderbilt
95
Syracuse
68
11
Florida State
94
157
Capital
67
12
Notre Dame
93
Tulsa
67
NYU
93
159
John Marshall
66
14
Chapman
92
South Dakota
66
Wake Forest
92
Wyoming
66
16
BYU
91
162
Southwestern
65
Northwestern
91
163
Yale
65
Samford
91
164
Arkansas-Little Rock
64
19
Boston College
90
165
North Carolina
63
Georgia State
90
166
Washington (Seattle)
62
Michigan
90
167
Appalachian
61
Texas
90
Cornell
61
23
Ave Maria
89
Northern Illinois
61
Emory
89
SMU
61
Florida Int’l
89
Southern
61
Iowa
89
St. Mary’s
61
LSU
89
Mercer
89
Rutgers-Camden
89
UC-Davis
89
UCLA
89
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:
