Prospective law students, current law students, and law school alumni are eagerly awaiting the release of the 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings, which usually occurs sometime in March. This time around, those rankings may be delayed due to the changes being made to the methodology; for now, we only know that they’ll be “released in the spring.” Time moves slowly when a rankings shake-up may be afoot. So, what if we told you that we had an employment-based “preview” of those rankings? Sounds great, right? Let us help you scratch that rankings itch.
Thanks to Yale and the dozens of other top law schools that decided to withdraw from the U.S. News law school rankings, big changes are finally coming to the methodology. Only publicly available data will be used, and six of the metrics used in last year’s rankings will not be included in this year’s rankings (all of which were weighted a combined 20%). Graduates with school-funded public interest jobs and graduates pursuing other degrees will now be counted the same as other employed graduates, and U.S. News will no longer use employment rates at graduation (as that data is not collected by the ABA). U.S. News has not indicated how weights for other metrics will be affected, what bar passage data will be used, or whether if it will include peer evaluations — a major rankings component of the quality assessment category, last year weighted at 25% but slated to receive less weight in the 2024 rankings — from law schools that...
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