Top Law Schools

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 September 30, 2014. 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...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.

• "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 September 30, 2014. 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."

jkara11 wrote:Just saw this updated semi-annual law school rankings according to student reviews. While they should be taken with a grain of salt, it's interesting to hear what current students have to say about their law school and how they rank it.

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

1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2 University of Colorado at Boulder
3 The University of Alabama
4 University of Florida
5 Northwestern University
6 Stanford University
7 University of Virginia
8 University of California-Berkeley
9 Texas Tech University
10 Thomas Jefferson School of Law
11 Vanderbilt University
12 Florida State University
13 Arizona State University
14 The University of Texas at Austin
15 Harvard University
16 New York University
17 Howard University
18 Washington University in St. Louis
19 Temple University
20 North Carolina Central University
21 University of San Francisco
22 Rutgers University-Newark
23 South Texas College of Law
24 Oklahoma City University
25 Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
26 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
27 Brigham Young University
28 New York Law School
29 Yale University
30 The Ohio State University
31 University of Maryland Baltimore
32 University of Connecticut
33 Boston College
34 Indiana University Bloomington
35 Washington and Lee University
36 Vermont Law School
37 Pepperdine University
38 Cornell University
39 Georgetown University
40 University of California-Los Angeles
41 Duke University
42 Baylor University
43 Depaul University
44 University of Utah
45 Charlotte School of Law
46 Southern Methodist University
47 Boston University
48 University of Minnesota Twin Cities
49 University of San Diego
50 University of Georgia

jj1990 wrote:No Cooley? Thought it would have a higher review based on its library size.

McAvoy2 wrote:

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 September 30, 2014. 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...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.

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