How will law schools fare in the new version of the rankings?
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What will the 2024 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings look like after more than 40 law schools have withdrawn from participation? According to an announcement from the magazine, we’ll find out on April 18, when the new Best Graduate Programs rankings are officially released.
A revolt against the U.S. News rankings started in mid-November, after Yale Law School opted out of the rankings, with its dean calling them “profoundly flawed.” Dozens of law schools — including the vast majority of the T14 — followed the elite law school’s lead, withdrawing from the rankings while sounding their own harsh notes of criticism.
According to Law.com, these are all the law schools that will no longer supply U.S. News with their own data (listed in order of the date of their withdrawal):
Yale Law School
Harvard Law School
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Georgetown Law Center
Columbia Law School
Stanford Law School
University of Michigan Law
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Duke Law School
The University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
University of California, Irvine, School of Law
University of California, Davis, School of Law
The University of Washington School of Law
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
New York University School of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
University of New Hampshire
Southwestern Law School
California Western School of Law
University of Idaho College of Law
St. John’s University School of Law
University of California Law San Francisco
Fordham University School of Law
South Texas College of Law Houston
Roger Williams University School of Law in Rhode Island
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
University of San Francisco School of Law
Quinnipiac University School of Law
Seattle University School of Law
Gonzaga University School of Law
University of Wisconsin Madison Law School
Rutgers Law School
Creighton University School of Law
Tulane University Law School
The University of Connecticut School of Law
Vanderbilt Law School
The University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Four other law schools, who told the American Bar Association that they won’t be submitting data, include: Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, Penn State Dickinson Law, Penn State Law and Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
With a new methodology (with yet-to-be disclosed weights) in hand, a rankings shake-up may be afoot. In the meantime, while you wait to see how your law school or alma mater fares in the U.S. News rankings, check out the Above the Law Top 50 Law School Rankings for a better, outcome-based methodology.
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.
