U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings 2016 Edition: All Schools, All Changes, All Reported Metrics This chart shows the changes in all reported U.S. News & World Report law school rankings metrics, from the 2015 Edition (Spring 2014) to the current, 2016 Edition (Spring 2015). Changes in rank and overall score are shown for the 153 ranked schools; for Tier 2 schools, no numerical change is given, but movement in or out of Tier 2 is indicated. Schools are listing in order of the 2016 Edition rankings.
Inter‐American University, and University of Puerto Rico) which weren’t in the 2015 Edition, so they are not part of this comparison. Feel free to contact me if there are any errors, issues, or questions. Brian Huddleston Senior Reference Librarian Loyola University New Orleans College of Law bhuddle@loyno.edu
Positive changes (increase in assessment scores, LSAT, UGPA, etc. and decrease in acceptance rates and student/faculty ratios) are shown in green, negative changes in red, and no change in yellow. N/A mean “Data were not provided by the school”, as indicated on the original U.S. News rankings. Median LSAT and UGPA, which are collected but not reported by U.S. News, are taken from the ABA Standard 509 Disclosures.
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Yale University
Harvard University
2015 2016 Change
1 1 0
100 100 0
4.8 4.8 0.0
4.7 4.8 + 0.1
3.82 3.82 0.00
3.90 3.91 + 0.01
3.97 3.97 0.00
170 170 0
173 173 0
176 176 0
9% 9% 0%
7.7 7.6 + 0.1
89.6% 88.2% ‐ 1.4%
91.4% 88.7% ‐ 2.7%
94.4% 97.9% + 3.5%
74% 76% + 2%
127.6% 128.8% + 1.2%
NY NY
2015 2016
2 2 0
96 96 0
4.8 4.8 0.0
4.8 4.8 0.0
3.77 3.75 ‐ 0.02
3.88 3.87 ‐ 0.01
3.95 3.95 0.00
170 170 0
173 173 0
175 175 0
16% 15% + 1%
11.9 11.8 + 0.1
91.0% 91.5% + 0.5%
94.1% 95.0% + 0.9%
97.0% 97.0% 0.0%
74% 76% + 2%
131.1% 127.6% ‐ 3.4%
NY NY
3 2 + 1
95 96 + 1
4.7 4.8 + 0.1
4.8 4.8 0.0
3.76 3.80 + 0.04
3.87 3.90 + 0.03
3.95 3.97 + 0.02
169 169 0
171 172 + 1
173 174 + 1
10% 9% + 1%
7.3 7.3 0.0
94.5% 93.8% ‐ 0.7%
96.1% 92.8% ‐ 3.3%
93.6% 90.3% ‐ 3.3%
66% 65% ‐ 1%
141.8% 138.9% ‐ 2.9%
CA CA
Change Stanford University
2015 2016 Change
U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings Changes from 2015 to 2016 Editions
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