Officials with the University at Buffalo Law School are blasting U.S. News and World Report's recently released 2010 law school rankings, which dropped the 123-year-old institution from its list of the top 100 schools to its list of third tier schools. In an e-mail to members of the school's Alumni Steering Committee, University at Buffalo Law School Dean Makau Mutua decried the ranking systems' methodology, citing the achievements the school has made in recent years.
West Virginia University's College of Law cracked into the Top 100 American law schools in the 2010 U.S. News and World Report rankings. Dean Joyce McConnell said law school faculty and staff have worked proactively to improve the school's national reputation, although she has known about the law school's quality for years.
SALT LAKE CITY – For the first time in its more than 25 years of publicizing grad school rankings, the U.S. News & World Report has given law schools at the University of Utah and at Brigham Young University the same score, constituting a tie for the two rival institutions. In its latest ranking of America's Best Graduate Schools, both the J. Reuben Clark Law School and the S.J. Quinney College of Law earned 42nd place out of the 100 schools across the country the magazine ranked. There are 200 American Bar Association-accredited law schools in the U.S. Yale, Harvard, Stanford and Columbia top the U.S. News list, as usual, but officials at both Utah schools are proud to be considered among such great institutions.
Last year, Hofstra University School of Law vowed to improve its national standing after it finished on the bottom half of U.S. News and World Report's law school rankings. And it did.
In April 2006, the law school deans of America raised a hue and cry against U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of their institutions. In an open letter, they cautioned against relying upon numerical rankings and implored applicants to evaluate law schools holistically. It was an appealing message: Deans don't agonize over law school rank, so neither should you. But today, the group most in need of that pep talk seems to be the law school administrators.
The newest law school rankings are in and there are cheers from Columbia, wringing of hands at Washington University and a drop for University of Missouri-Kansas City. S. News & World Report released its highly touted rankings of graduate programs around the country. The rankings take a look at a dozen weighted aspects of the overall school experience for 195 American Bar Association accredited law schools.
The advent of the US News & World Report ranking of law schools has brought a great deal of "judging" to the world of legal education. The US News purported measure of quality leaves out the important value of diversity, as well as other important values. The purpose of this article is to focus on the emphasis on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score and its significant weight in the rankings. As noted, the median LSAT score accounts for 12.5% of a school's overall ranking. Legal educators have raised concerns about the impact on minority admissions and the fact that diversity is not measured in the rankings. The goal of ensuring a diverse profession must be attained by engaging a number of strategies. These include increasing outreach pipeline programs, ensuring a positive exp...
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