Alternative Student based rankings Forum

[editor_gradprograms]

According to law students across the country, the top ten best overall law schools are as follows:

1. UColorado at Boulder
2. UNC Chapel Hill
3. U of Arkansas
4. Northwestern
5. Stanford
6. UC Berkeley
7. UVA
8. Florida State
9. Vanderbilt
10. UT Austin

Thoughts on these student review based rankings?

Source: http://www.graduateprograms.com/law-school-rankings/

[Gooner91]

It's kind of sad most of these students didn't look at job placement.

[sd5289]

It kinda looks like they just took the USNWR rankings list, got drunk, and randomly pointed at the list 50 times in between drinks in order to construct these "rankings".

[BigZuck]

This is pretty awesome. #2 and #43 are my favorites.

Also loving Arkansas at #3. How did that happen? What possible metric could one use to get them that high?

[lhanvt13]

This is pretty awesome. #2 and #43 are my favorites.

Also loving Arkansas at #3. How did that happen? What possible metric could one use to get them that high?

Drugs

[sd5289]

Oh, I'm enjoying the fact that Brooklyn is on that list but Columbia is not. El oh el.

[SFSpartan]

The ranking system might as well be called "Students at schools with (mostly) poor job placement drink the Kool-Aid."

[johnnyquest]

Thomas Jefferson ahead of NYU and Yale. Also Duke is ranked 4th best in North Carolina.

[dixiecupdrinking]

Graduateprograms.com reaches current and recent graduate students through scholarship entries as well as social media platforms. All law school rankings cover a period from September 1, 2012 to January 28, 2013. Graduateprograms.com assigns 15 ranking categories to each graduate program at each graduate school. Rankings cover a variety of student topics, such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid, and quality of network.

School rankings for specific graduate programs (business, law, engineering etc.) are determined by comparing the sum of the average scores in each of the 15 subcategories. Graduate programs are not ranked until the number of student surveys completed reaches a minimum threshold.

So this is a ranking of the schools where the most people have heard of "graduateprograms.com"

[timbs4339]

Students can't even properly use the rankings other people make for them, what the hell makes people think they'd be good at making up rankings?

[HRomanus]

Students can't even properly use the rankings other people make for them, what the hell makes people think they'd be good at making up rankings?

180.

Speaking of BS rankings, has anyone heard of Colleges of Distinction? It's an undergad "ranking that my school is on...but the description reads exactly like my school's marketing material. Sketch.

[rickgrimes69]

METHODOLOGY

Graduateprograms.com reaches current and recent graduate students through scholarship entries as well as social media platforms. All law school rankings cover a period from September 1, 2012 to January 28, 2013. Graduateprograms.com assigns 15 ranking categories to each graduate program at each graduate school. Rankings cover a variety of student topics, such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid, and quality of network.

School rankings for specific graduate programs (business, law, engineering etc.) are determined by comparing the sum of the average scores in each of the 15 subcategories.Graduate programs are not ranked until the number of student surveys completed reaches a minimum threshold.

[03152016]

Judging from your handle I take it that you put this together OP?

Why did you do it?

[paayter]

its these kinds of rankings that create business for TTTTTTT schools. its a good way for current students at TTTTTTTT to validate themselves. "hey we aren't ranked in US news, but we are a top 15 program on graduateprograms.com. dumbest ranking ever.

[papercut]

This is probably a 4chan conspiracy.

[Nova]

not useful

[PDaddy]

When stuff like this happens, I just blame George W. Bush!

1. UColorado at Boulder (safety)
2. UNC Chapel Hill (safety)
3. U of Arkansas (safety)
8. Florida State (safety)

7. UVA (range)
4. Northwestern (range)
9. Vanderbilt (range)
10. UT Austin (range)

5. Stanford (reach)
6. UC Berkeley (splitter's reach)

4 range schools
4 safety schools
2 reach schools

Yo! This is somebody's list, and it's too random for anyone to pay attention beyond making jokes out of it. Besides, a 5-4-3 distribution, meaning 5 range - 4 safety - 3 reach (12 schools total), would be a better way to go.

[Micdiddy]

Northwestern 4? This is even better than the Cooley rankings.

[Gooner91]

This is probably the most traffic his website has seen.