Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

6-20-2014

SSRN Discipline

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Abstract

This paper returns to the muchdiscussed topic of ranking law schools Where US News World Report includes a wide variety of factors "“ some of which are criticized as irrelevant to what prospective students care about or should care about "“ this paper looks to three variables They are median LSAT score of entering students which seeks to capture the quality of the student body the percentage of the graduating students who are employed at 9 months following graduation at fulltime permanent JD required jobs a separate analysis excludes schoolfunded positions and solo practitioners from this variable and the number of citations to each school's main law review which seeks to capture a school's recent reputation It rank orders each of those variables averages those ranks to obtain a new ranking and then compares those new rankings to the US News World Report rankings of the 147 schools for which US News provided ranks in March 2014 It identifies the schools that improve and decline the most with the new ranking This paper provides ranks for all 194 ABA accredited law schools that US News included in its rankings released in 2014 including the 47 schools that US News put in its "unranked" category

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