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Legal Ed Rankings
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2025-26 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings
The new 2025-26 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings include the clinical training law programs at 185 law schools (the faculty survey had a 54% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Georgetown 2 American 2 NYU 4 Baltimore 4 CUNY 4 Michigan 4 UC-Berkeley 8 Denver 8 Maryland 8 Suffolk 8 Yale…
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More Commentary On The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings
Following up on Tuesday's post, 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings): Derek Muller (Notre Dame; Google Scholar), Benchmarking Law School Rankings Against Expectations, Performance, and Rankings Tactics: Whenever the USNWR law school rankings are released, there are typical cries of “how did X school move to Y?” This usually reflects a…
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2025-26 U.S. News Business/Corporate Law Rankings
The new 2025-26 U.S. News Business/Corporate Law Rankings include the business/corporate law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 42% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Harvard 2 Chicago 2 Columbia 2 NYU 5 Penn 5 Stanford 7 UC-Berkeley 8 UCLA 8 Virginia 8 Yale 11 Michigan 12…
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Tobin: Building A Better Law School Rankings Mousetrap
Following up on Monday’s post, XPT Top 25 Law School Rankings (Alpha Phase): Donald Tobin (Maryland; Google Scholar), Building a Better Mousetrap: There Must Be Something Better Than U.S. News: There must be a better way. U.S. News has dominated law school rankings for several decades, and its decisions about what to rank and how…
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2025-26 U.S. News Tax Rankings
The new 2025-26 U.S. News Tax Rankings include the tax programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 49% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 NYU 2 Florida 3 Georgetown 3 Northwestern 5 Virginia 6 Chicago 6 Michigan 8 Columbia 8 UC-Irvine 10 Duke 10 UCLA 12 Boston College…
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2025-26 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
Continuing a TaxProf Blog tradition (see links below for 2008-09 to 2024-25), here is the full list of the 195 law schools ranked by academic peer reputation, as well as their overall rank, in the new 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings (methodology): Peer Rank Peer Score School Overall Rank 1 4.7 Harvard 6 1…
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Tobin: XPT Top 25 Law School Rankings (Alpha Phase)
For the third year in a row (The Silly U.S. News Law School Rankings (2024-25), A Preliminary Analysis Of The New U.S. News Law School Rankings (2023-24)), Donald Tobin shares his thoughts on the forthcoming U.S. News Law School Rankings: XPT Top 25 Law School Rankings (Alpha Phase), by Donald Tobin (Maryland; Google Scholar): This…
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Fischman: A Statistical Approach To Law School Citation Rankings
Joshua Fischman (Virginia; Google Scholar), A Statistical Approach to Law School Citation Rankings, 21 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 632 (2024): Citation rankings have emerged as a popular approach to ranking the scholarly impact of law faculties. This paper develops a statistical approach for inferring faculty quality from citation counts and determining when differences among law…
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The Best Law Schools For Practical Training
The Best Law Schools For Practical Training, preLaw (Spring 2025): Preparing students for practice is the signature goal of many law schools. We spotlight 64 schools that excel when it comes to providing hands-on, practical experience through clinics, externships and other offerings. …
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2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings
U.S. News & World Report has announced that the new 2025-26 law school rankings will be publicly released on Tuesday, April 8th (law schools will receive an embargoed copy on Tuesday, March 25th): Outcomes are critical when considering an advanced degree. That is why three brand new law school rankings that compare schools on different…
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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
Following up on my previous posts: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources In this post, I project the forthcoming 2025-26 U.S. News law school rankings using the 2024-25 rankings methodology…
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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources
Update: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Following up on my previous posts: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage Preview Of The 2025-26…
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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes
Update: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources Following up on my previous posts: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S.…
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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment
Update: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes Following up on my previous posts: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage Preview Of The 2025-26…
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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage
Update: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment Following up on my previous posts: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News…
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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage
Update: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage…
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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
Update: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage…
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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median LSAT
Update: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage…
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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median UGPA
Update: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage…
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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate
Update: Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage…
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Trump’s Hiring Freeze Leaves Thousands Of Law Students (And Some Law Schools’ Employment Outcomes And Rankings) Out In The Cold
Following up on Friday's posts: Department Of Justice Rescinds Job Offers To 3Ls Accepted Into Honors Program IRS Chief Counsel Rescinds Job Offers To 3Ls Accepted Into Honors Program Reuters, Trump's Hiring Freeze Leaves Thousands of Law Students Out in the Cold: A widespread federal government hiring freeze imposed by President Donald Trump last week…
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2025 Religious Law School Rankings
Most Devout Law Schools, preLaw (Winter 2025): Acts of Service: We recognize 20 law schools that are living their missions through benevolent works. … Every two years, preLaw magazine spotlights the country’s most devout law schools. Schools are ranked all together, rather than being categorized by denomination. … The schools are ranked by how much emphasis…
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Projected 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: The Biggest Winners And Losers
Derek Muller (Notre Dame; Google Scholar), Updated Projected 2025-2026 USNWR Law School Rankings (To Be Released March 2025 Or So): The updated 509 data from the American Bar Association discloses a good deal of public information about law school admissions and law school faculty that is ultimately used in the USNWR law school rankings. We now…
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NY Times: Did Ben Sasse Resign As UF President Because Of U.S. News Rankings Decline Of University And Law School?
New York Times, A Star President’s Resignation Was a Mystery. Was It All About Rankings?: Florida’s star president, Ben Sasse, was among the best paid university presidents ever. He promised a conservative overhaul, but then he resigned, leaving controversy and an embarrassing drop in the U.S. News rankings. Ben Sasse, the Nebraska senator, arrived in…
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College President Rankings
American Enterprise Institute, A Crisis in Leadership? Examining the Successes and Failures of University Presidents: Executive SummaryCollege presidents are receiving heightened public attention and scrutiny. But few data exist that demonstrate which college presidents are most effective at improving student outcomes. This report ranks over 400 current and former college and university presidents on how…