New Facilities and Rank Forum

[rduffy5]

I have an interesting question for all you TLSers. What do you think the relationship is (if any) between a school (and its alumni) investing in itself and building new facilities and the USNWR rank. The way I see it, a new building means alumni who care about the school and the parent university caring about bettering its law school, which can only be good things.

Here's a few schools who are updating their facilities. I am looking mostly at TT schools, so this is where most of the schools are, ranking wise:
- GA State
- Saint Louis U
- Colorado-Boulder
- Syracuse
- Villanova (a little different with the admission scandal)
- American
- Fordham
- Arizona


So what do you think? Won't these schools get better, at least a little bit, due to the investment they're making in themselves? Or is that a stupid theory?

[BigZuck]

Will their betterness help you get a job?

[californiauser]

US News Rankings are worthless.

This is all that matters:
http://www.lawschooltransparency.com/

Looking at terms in things of T vs. TT vs. TTT is completely futile in this day and age. Many TTs are among the worst law schools in the country, see Hastings for example; many "T1" schools can ruin you, too.

[Domke]

I have an interesting question for all you TLSers. What do you think the relationship is (if any) between a school (and its alumni) investing in itself and building new facilities and the USNWR rank. The way I see it, a new building means alumni who care about the school and the parent university caring about bettering its law school, which can only be good things.

Here's a few schools who are updating their facilities. I am looking mostly at TT schools, so this is where most of the schools are, ranking wise:
- GA State
- Saint Louis U
- Colorado-Boulder
- Syracuse
- Villanova (a little different with the admission scandal)
- American
- Fordham
- Arizona


So what do you think? Won't these schools get better, at least a little bit, due to the investment they're making in themselves? Or is that a stupid theory?

They're building new buildings because they raised tuition and have more money to spend. It has very little to do with alumni.

[Tyr]

US News Rankings are worthless.

This is all that matters:
http://www.lawschooltransparency.com/

Looking at terms in things of T vs. TT vs. TTT is completely futile in this day and age. Many TTs are among the worst law schools in the country, see Hastings for example; many "T1" schools can ruin you, too.

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