Part-Time Law School Rankings Methodology
How we rank part-time law programs
Part-time J.D. law programs play a vital role in legal education. According to the American Bar Association, about 16 percent of all J.D. students are enrolled part time, and for many working adults, attending part time is the only way they can afford to go to law school. This year, U.S. News presents its first-ever rankings of 87 part-time J.D. programs at ABA-accredited law schools. U.S. News defines a part-time J.D. program as a law school that has a separate admissions process for part-time students and has at least 20 part-time J.D. students.
The part-time J.D. program rankings are based solely on a fall 2008 peer assessment that asked academics at each law school to choose up to 15 "law schools with outstanding part-time law J.D. programs." Programs are ranked based on the number of part-time J.D. program votes they received, sorted in descending order: Those with a statistically insignificant number of votes are listed as N/A and are unranked. The statistical data were collected by U.S. News and are presented for information purposes only. Peer assessment data were collected by Synovate.
Reader Comments
part time law schools
has anyone earn any additional thoghts or comments on law schools adopting mini law or executive law degreee programs
Real-world criteria
If the rankings were based on these factors:
1) bar passage rate,
2) salary-to-debt ratio, and
3) not being up the ABA's hiney,
then the Nashville School of Law would be Tier 1, baby!!
I'm pretty sure your wrong!
I am pretty sure that NYLS is so highly rater because it is a great part time program. It's super downtown NY by almost all the federal courts. It has a strong alumni network. The concern about not finding a job that the lower 75% of NYLS students might have right out of college isn't as big a deal to people who are working and going at night. They also allow night student to participate fully in their Harlan honor's focuses, Law review, and other activities.
As someone who works in high tech, and is going because he is interested in Tech Law. I chose NYLS over Brooklyn with scholorships to both.
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