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Group Tries to Start Boycott of U.S. News Law School Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook May 27, 2010 Comment (4)The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) recently issued a statement urging law school deans and faculty members to work with the American Bar Association (ABA) to reduce the influence of the U.S.News & World Report law school rankings and to withhold the release of LSAT scores to U.S. News.
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U.S. News Takes Steps to Stop Law Schools From Manipulating the Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook May 20, 2010 Comment (10)The problem with being totally transparent about key methodology details about U.S. News's America's Best Law Schools Rankings is that it's clear—based on our own analysis of historical trends in the our law school rankings and recently published blog posts—that certain law schools are taking advantage of that knowledge to game our rankings.
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More Top-Ranked M.B.A. Programs Now Accept GRE
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2010 Comment (10)A growing number of M.B.A. programs are now accepting the Graduate Record Exam or GRE for admissions. This new trend gives prospective M.B.A. students more testing options, because almost all M.B.A. programs only accepted the Graduate Management Admission Test or GMAT for admission. One key reason why M.B.A. programs are adding the GRE as a testing option is it enables them to broaden their applicant pool and get more potential students to consider going to B-school.
[Read More Reasons Why M.B.A. Programs Are Accepting the GRE in Admissions.]
U.S. News has just published a list of which M.B.A. programs are currently accepting the GRE for admissions based on data collected through early January 2010.
These are the top-ranked M.B.A. programs from the 2011 edition of our America's Best Business Schools rankings that are now currently accepting the GRE:
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New Ranking: Which Law Schools Get the Most Judicial Clerkship Jobs?
Tweet Share on Facebook May 6, 2010 Comment (1)Behind every great judge is his or her law clerk. Judicial clerkships are considered very prestigious. However, they are very difficult to obtain because they are highly coveted by law school graduates. Federal clerkships are considered the most prestigious, making them that much harder to get.
With this in mind, U.S. News has just published its second annual ranking of which law schools are sending the largest proportions of their graduates on to judicial clerkships for federal judges. The ranking is sorted by the percentage of the 2008 J.D. graduating class that was employed as clerks by federal judges. Yale's law school, not surprisingly, came out No. 1 and Stanford University finished No. 2.
Because clerkships give lawyers considerable knowledge of the law and court system, they can provide a significant edge in today's very tough legal job market. In addition, some clerks are more highly prized by potential employers because of the valuable contacts that they develop during their clerkships.
Becoming a U.S. Supreme Court clerk remains the most difficult and competitive to obtain. Clerking for the U.S. Supreme Court is viewed by many law school graduates as the ultimate achievement and it can be the catalyst for a successful legal career. Dean Jim Chen of University of Louisville law school, who is himself a former Supreme Court clerk, says: "The Supreme Court clerkship remains the most elite credential available to an American lawyer. Law firms are willing to pay substantial bonuses to associates who bring the experience or perhaps just the cachet to work."
[See How to Get In: Admissions Advice From Law School Officials.]
As part of our clerkship table, we are also publishing the percentage of the 2008 graduating class that was employed as a clerk by a judge at any level of the judiciary—federal, state, or local. The data, which U.S. News collected directly from each law school in fall 2009 and very early 2010, show that some law schools have a culture of sending a relatively large percentage of their graduates to clerkships. The data also show that some law schools, such as Seton Hall University, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Montana, and University of Idaho concentrate on state and local clerkships and put little, if any, emphasis on federal clerks.
At this time, U.S. News does not have plans to incorporate the clerkship ranking into the methodology for the America's Best Law Schools rankings.
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