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Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median UGPA
Update: Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage…
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Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate
Update: Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment Preview Of The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage…
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Bush: The FTC Needs To Intervene In Law School Rankings
Darren Bush (Houston; Google Scholar), Why the FTC Needs to Intervene in Law School Rankings: Since the boycott of the U.S. News and World Report Rankings (“U.S. News Rankings”) by a group of law schools, the U.S. News Rankings have gone a bit haywire. The top law schools, all highly ranked, refused to submit data…
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Spivey: U.S. News Likely Will Change Methodology In Forthcoming Law School Rankings
Mike Spivey is “pretty sure” U.S. News will change the methodology of the forthcoming law school rankings because they are easy to predict due to the use of publicly available ABA data for 75% of the rankings and the very sticky peer and lawyer/judge reputation surveys for the remaining 25%. Indeed, the projections by Mike…
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Will Lawsuit Against U.S. News Over Hospital Rankings Lead To A Lawsuit Over Law School Rankings?
Following up on my previous post, U.S. News Sues San Francisco City Attorney Over Subpoenas Seeking Rankings Data: Jill Switzer (Alternative Resolution Centers, Los Angeles), Rankings, Shmankings: Has USNWR Law School List Ever Been Relevant?: Right now in the soggy “Golden State,” a dispute between U.S. News and World Report’s hospital rankings and the San…
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U.S. News Sues San Francisco City Attorney Over Subpoenas Seeking Rankings Data
Los Angeles Times, U.S. News & World Report Sues S.F. City Attorney Over Hospital Ranking Subpoenas: A dispute between U.S. News & World Report and the San Francisco city attorney’s office over the media company’s well-known but increasingly scrutinized system for ranking hospitals and other healthcare institutions has in recent weeks turned into an all-out…
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Muller: Projected Declines Of NYU & Cornell In 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings Highlight Impact Of New Methodology’s Shift From Quality To Quantity
Derek Muller (Notre Dame; Google Scholar), NYU, Cornell, and the New USNWR Law School Rankings Landscape: After I project next year’s USNWR law school rankings, as I did last May and again here in December, there’s always a lot of chatter about the changes, about schools moving up and down. But the more notable thing is…
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July 2023 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools
Following up on yesterday's post on the July 2023 California Bar Exam results for in-state law schools: the state bar has released comparable data for out-of-state law schools. Overall, 51.5% of all applicants passed the California bar exam. Among graduates of ABA-accredited law schools, first-time takers from in-state law schools passed at a higher rate…
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July 2023 California Bar Exam Results
The California State Bar has released school-by-school data on the July 2023 California Bar Exam. Here are the results for first time test takers for the 18 California ABA-accredited law schools, along with each school’s U.S. News ranking (California and overall): Bar Pass Rank (Rate) School US News Rank CA (Overall) 1 (94.0%) Stanford…
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What Do Dramatic Changes To U.S. News Medical School Rankings Methodology Portend For Law Schools: ‘Transparency Credits’ For Non-Boycotting Schools, Faculty Citation Counts?
Following up on my previous post, Law School Rankings Revolt Spreads To Medical Schools: #1 Harvard Will Not Send Data To U.S. News: Robert Morse (Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News), Plans for Publication of the 2024 Best Medical Schools: [W]e will be making the following changes to the 2024 Best Medical Schools rankings and data collection…
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Projected 2024-25 U.S. News Rankings Of All 196 Law Schools
With the ABA’s release of the 509 data on Friday, 75% of the components of the current 2023-24 U.S. News law school rankings methodology are now publicly available. (The remaining 25% is the U.S. News proprietary assessment scores (12.5% peer assessment and 12.5% lawyer/judge assessment). Mike Spivey has crunched the numbers and released projected 2024-25…
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WaPo: Behind The Scenes Of The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott
Washington Post, Law Schools Love to Hate U.S. News Rankings. But Some Can’t Let Go.: The decision late last year by Yale Law School to stop cooperating with U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings drew giddy applause from some deans, who cheered the prospect of a larger uprising. After years of misgivings about the rankings’ influence, school…
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The U.S. News Rankings Of New York’s 14 Law Schools
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, A Look at the U.S. News Law School Rankings From NYU to Touro: The recent law school rankings by U.S. News have delineated a broad spectrum of legal education institutions across New York, with Brooklyn Law School holding its own amidst a highly competitive landscape. The rankings are a testament to the…
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July 2023 Ohio Bar Exam Results: Ohio State #1
July Ohio Bar Exam Results for first-time test-takers by law school: Bar Pass Rank (Rate) School US News RankOH (Overall) 1 (92.0%) Ohio State 1 (22) 2 (88.1%) Cincinnati 3 (84) 3 (86.3%) Dayton 4 (111) 4 (77.9%) Capital 9 (175) 5 (76.6%) Case Western 2 (80) 6 (73.3%)…
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Harvard Resident Used AI To Create Medical School Ranking Alternative To U.S. News
Inside Higher Ed, AI Med School Rankings Tool Offers Alternative to Traditional Metrics: As the backlash against traditional college rankings continues to gain momentum, one physician has used artificial intelligence to create an alternative ranking system for prospective medical students. Instead of relying on U.S. News and World Report’s widely recognized rankings, which consider factors such as medical…
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After Adding Graduate Debt And Salaries, And Faculty Research, To Its College Rankings, Will U.S. News Overhaul The Law School Rankings Methodology Yet Again?
Following up on my previous post, 2024 U.S. News College Rankings Released With Biggest Methodology Changes In History, Including First-Ever Measure Of Faculty Research: In the law school rankings released in May, U.S. News made the most significant changes in the methodology in the history of the rankings. Similarly, in the college rankings released in…
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July 2023 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 9th Year In A Row
The July 2023 Florida bar passage rates by school are out. For the ninth year in a row, Florida International is #1. Here are the results for the 11 Florida law schools, along with each school’s U.S. News ranking (Florida and overall): Bar Pass Rank (Rate) School US News Rank FL (Overall) 1 (91.1%)…
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2024 U.S. News College Rankings Released With Biggest Methodology Changes In History, Including First-Ever Measure Of Faculty Research
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2024 College Rankings. In the most recent law school rankings released in May, U.S. News made the most significant changes in the methodology in the history of the rankings. U.S. News followed suit with the most significant changes in the methodology in the history of the college…
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Do Devout Law Schools Take A Hit In The U.S. News Peer Reputation Rankings?
Following up on last Sunday's post, 2023 Religious Law School Rankings: Do Devout Law Schools Take a Hit in the U.S. News Peer Review Rankings, preLaw (Winter 2023): Liberty University School of Law ranks No. 1 on our list of Most Devout Law Schools. It also has the dubious distinction of being ranked last in…
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The Most Diverse Law Schools
preLaw, Most Diverse Law Schools: Legal education stands at a crossroads. For years, law schools have sought to match enrollment with the real world’s makeup of race, gender and other underrepresented groups. Yes, the American Bar Association requires law schools to demonstrate a commitment to diversity in both students and faculty. But many schools have…
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2023 World Law School Rankings
Quacquarelli Symonds has released the 2023 World Law School Rankings as part of its World University Rankings. The methodology uses five indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations per paper, h-index, International Research Network (IRN). The rankings consist of 352 law schools, 55 in the United States. Here are the U.S. law schools, along with each…
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2023 Religious Law School Rankings
The Most Devout Law Schools, preLaw (Winter 2023): Religion has long played a significant role at many of the nation’s law schools. Here we highlight the top 20. … While 46 of the nation’s 200 law schools have ties to religious organizations, there is a big difference between them when it comes to acting on…
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U.S. District Court Dismisses Whistleblower’s Claim That Rutgers Created Fake Jobs For Graduates To Raise Business School Ranking
Following up on my previous post, Whistleblower Claims Rutgers Created Fake Jobs For Graduates To Goose Business School Ranking: Law360, Rutgers Beats Suit Over Inflated MBA Job Data, For Now: Rutgers University defeated, for now, a proposed class action by a part-time Master of Business Administration student accusing it of inflating its business school's rankings…
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The Best Law Schools For Human Rights Law
Leaders in Human Rights Law, preLaw (Fall 2023): Leaders in human rights law Protecting human rights is one of the world’s most vexing challenges. Name a nation that hasn’t faced struggles in doing so. Therefore, helping defend human rights around the globe has long been a vital mission of many law schools. Methodology:
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U.S. Department Of Education Takes Action Against Five Law Schools For Disbursing $2.9 Million In Federal Financial Aid To Students In Unaccredited LL.M. Programs
U.S. Department of Education Takes Action Against Five Schools for Disbursing Federal Student Aid to Students Enrolled in Unaccredited Programs: Today, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) announced settlement agreements with five law schools after a Federal Student Aid (FSA) investigation revealed that the schools improperly disbursed Title IV funds to students enrolled in unaccredited…