Why is University of Miami Ranked Higher than Stetson? Forum

[SunshineMagic]

If you look at the 2010 ABA Data http://placementsummary.abaquestionnaire.org/home.aspx

UM has 386/462 of its graduates employed or 83.3%

Stetson has 264/337 of its graduates employed or 78.3%

This seems logical but when you subtract UMs 35 law school funded positions UM employment rate drops to 75.9%, lower than Stetsons a school that does not self hire...

UM places 102 people into firms with more than 2 attorneys out of its 462 graduates or 22.07%

Stetson places 137 people into firms with more than 2 attorneys out of its 337 graduates or 40.6%

Why is Miami ranked hirer than Stetson?

[flem]

The reputation score.

[stillwater]

The magic ranking fairy says so.

[laxbrah420]

It's ranked hirer because you didn't consider the entigher methodology.
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-gr ... l-rankings

[SunshineMagic]

It's ranked hirer because you didn't consider the entigher methodology.
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-gr ... l-rankings

Peer assessments are worth 25%???????????????? Really?

[Aberzombie1892]

Judge score
Academic score
Acceptance rate
.....and so on.

Strangely enough, Miami would be ranked pretty high if they cut their class size in half.

[SunshineMagic]

Peer assessment score (0.25): In the fall of 2011, law school deans, deans of academic affairs, chairs of faculty appointments, and the most recently tenured faculty members were asked to rate programs on a scale from marginal (1) to outstanding (5). Those individuals who did not know enough about a school to evaluate it fairly were asked to mark "don't know." A school's score is the average of all the respondents who rated it. Responses of "don't know" counted neither for nor against a school. About 63 percent of those surveyed responded.

so other law school deans and tenured faculty assess other schools? and this counts for 25% of the overall ranking

[flem]

Judge score
Academic score
Acceptance rate
.....and so on.

Strangely enough, Miami would be ranked pretty high if they cut their class size in half.

Less money to feed those giant bureaucratic turds bruh

[Lord Randolph McDuff]

The magic ranking fairy says so.

TCR

[SunshineMagic]

Judge score
Academic score
Acceptance rate
.....and so on.

Strangely enough, Miami would be ranked pretty high if they cut their class size in half.

Less money to feed those giant bureaucratic turds bruh

Yea if Miami class size was smaller it would not be able to pay for the extra chairs in the lounge.