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Yale Law Tops the Chart Again in U.S. News Law School Rankings by Surajit Sen Sharma
The recent publication of the 2013 U.S. News & World Report of U.S. law school rankings found Yale Law School topping the charts once again. Yale has been at the top spot since the law school rankings publication started in 1990.
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made big moves, but for the most part the rankings were stable.”
Harvard slipped one spot pushed down by Stanford
Many of the top schools reported that the percentage of recruitments for graduates employed after nine months
which moved into second place in the rankings.
had fallen from that of last year. The percentages University of California-Berkeley and the University
slipped in case of Yale from 96.5 percent to 91.8
of Virginia remained friends by remaining tied for the
percent and for Harvard the percentages dropped from
same spot. Last year, they were tied at the 9th spot,
97.5 percent recruitments to 94.6 percent.
and this year both moved up to the 7th spot together and tied. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor lost the 7th
Mark Weber, assistant dean for career services at
spot and slipped down to 10th.
Harvard Law told the media, “While we are concerned
The University of Washington surprised the rankings
recognize that there will always be slight variations
about how every student fares in the job market, we
by sliding up ten spots to occupy the 20th place.
volumes about how well our students have done in one
The reports attributed the radical improvement to changes in faculty resources and in job placements of graduates. Similarly the Arizona State University drastically improved its rankings by reaching the 26th place from its previous 40th position.
of the toughest job markets in the last 25 years.” The U.S. News & World Report law school rankings are used by students to decide their choice of school for submitting applications. The law school rankings use
Bob Morse, director of data research for the U.S. News & World Report told the media that “There were some small changes among top schools and a few schools
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from year to year … If anything, these numbers speak
different metrics to arrive at their results including data on law school quality, LSAT scores, faculty resources and graduate job placements.
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