The Grad School Rankings Are Coming Soon
The upcoming 2010 edition of our America's Best Graduate Schools rankings will be published online on April 23, 2009, at usnews.com. We're currently redesigning our grad school rankings website in order to improve the usability for the business, law, engineering, medicine, education categories as well as the rest of the rankings.
The law school rankings will be getting an upgrade. We plan to publish our first-ever ranking of part-time J.D. law programs. This new ranking will evaluate the part-time law programs at 87 American Bar Association fully accredited law schools that are fully accredited by the American Bar Association. We defined a part-time J.D. program as a law school that has a separate admission process for part-time law students and has at least 20 part-time students enrolled. As we have annually since 1990, we'll also publish updated law school rankings, which will cover all law schools. We'll also have new rankings in clinical training, dispute resolution, environmental law, healthcare law, intellectual property law, international law, legal writing, tax law, and trial advocacy.
Also new in the 2010 edition will be updated peer-assessment-only rankings for Ph.D. programs in English, history, psychology, sociology, political science, economics, and criminology and criminal justice. In addition, we will be publishing new rankings for master's degree programs in library and information studies.
We will also have new rankings in four other large graduate school disciplines: business, education, engineering, and medicine (as well as the various specialties associated with those disciplines).
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Robert Morse is no statistician! A fifth-grader could do better!
Is the 2010 part-time law ranking methodology meant to be a joke?
Morse spends all this time building up the anticipation of the "all new part-time law rankings" and then flops in the end? I thought the idea was to get an accurate guaging of part-time programs using actual submitted data and not an 8th grade popularity contest.
Hey Bobbo, if you are going to resort to popularity contests (like the dilettante that you are) and ask school admins to "rank up to 15 schools" then (hint) only post the rankings for the top 15 schools! A fifth grader could come up with a better ranking methodology than you. These new rankings are nothing short of disgraceful and I am not referring to any particular school but, rather, the childish methodolgy which detracts from the credibility of all of the rankings in general (if it ever existed).
Brooklyn Law School LSAT Scores Incorrect - Part Timers?
In the print edition of your 2010 Law School rankings, US News lists the 25th-75th percentile LSAT scores as 162-165. Per the Brooklyn Law website: http://www.brooklaw.edu/admissions/faqs/#scores , see also http://officialguide.lsac.org/SearchResults/SchoolPage_PDFs/ABA_LawSchoolData/ABA2047.pdf , these are the numbers for Brooklyn's full time program only, the numbers are 2-3 points lower when using the part-timers, as you do for everyone else. US News also doesn't list Brooklyn's sizable part time program amongst the ranked part time programs.
Whose mistake is this -- US News' or Brooklyn's? It seems a correction to the rankings is in order here.
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