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Post by Kevinlomax » Fri Apr 04, 2014 1:27 am

Why is the employment outcome for unlv law so abysmally low? It is ranked 68 and has a much lower employment outcome (60%) than lower ranked schools such as lsu which sits at 92%....

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Re: Unlv law

Post by Jchance » Fri Apr 04, 2014 1:58 am

Louisiana is a weird state

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Post by TheSpanishMain » Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:25 am

Also, at a certain point, rankings become pretty arbitrary. That's why people always recommend consulting LST for employment numbers rather than relying on USNWR.

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Post by SFrost » Fri Apr 04, 2014 10:20 am

TheSpanishMain wrote:Also, at a certain point, rankings become pretty arbitrary. That's why people always recommend consulting LST for employment numbers rather than relying on USNWR.
60% of the rankings are based on non-arbitrary criteria. You could point out that the weighting is arbitrary, but that would be consistent across tiers.

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Post by BigZuck » Fri Apr 04, 2014 10:31 am

SFrost wrote:
TheSpanishMain wrote:Also, at a certain point, rankings become pretty arbitrary. That's why people always recommend consulting LST for employment numbers rather than relying on USNWR.
60% of the rankings are based on non-arbitrary criteria. You could point out that the weighting is arbitrary, but that would be consistent across tiers.
Enough of the rankings are made up of crap that doesn't matter to make the whole thing pretty arbitrary and stupid. American is not better than LSU, I don't care how many non-arbitrary factors are factored in.

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Re: Unlv law

Post by A. Nony Mouse » Fri Apr 04, 2014 10:38 am

Kevinlomax wrote:Why is the employment outcome for unlv law so abysmally low? It is ranked 68 and has a much lower employment outcome (60%) than lower ranked schools such as lsu which sits at 92%....
The better way to ask this is, why is the ranking for UNLV so high when it has such a low employment outcome? Because a huge chunk of the rankings derives from asking law profs, deans, and judges/practicing lawyers (most of the latter of whom don't reply to the survey) about the school's reputation, which has nothing to do with employment.

Also, if by LSU you mean Louisiana State, it doesn't have a 92% employment score. It's 74%.

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Re: Unlv law

Post by TheSpanishMain » Fri Apr 04, 2014 12:38 pm

SFrost wrote:
TheSpanishMain wrote:Also, at a certain point, rankings become pretty arbitrary. That's why people always recommend consulting LST for employment numbers rather than relying on USNWR.
60% of the rankings are based on non-arbitrary criteria. You could point out that the weighting is arbitrary, but that would be consistent across tiers.
I was probably a little imprecise. 60% of the factors may be quantifiable, but a lot of them meaningless in terms of impacting student outcomes

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Post by cron1834 » Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:41 pm

Kevinlomax wrote:Why is the employment outcome for unlv law so abysmally low? It is ranked 68 and has a much lower employment outcome (60%) than lower ranked schools such as lsu which sits at 92%....
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