A man walks through Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts November 16, 2012. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
(Reuters) - Harvard Law School was ranked No. 4 in law school rankings published Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report, marking just the second time in more than three decades that the elite school was not among the top three on the annual list.
Longtime No. 1 Yale Law School still heads up the list of top-ranked schools, and Stanford kept its No. 2 spot. The University of Chicago Law School moved up one spot to supplant Harvard at No. 3, while Columbia Law School tied with Harvard at No. 4.
A Harvard Law spokesman declined to comment on the rankings.
U.S. News does not publicly disclose its full rankings formula. Available data shows a slight decline from last year in Harvard’s “peer assessment” among legal academics and a slight dip in its graduate employment rate.
“Is Harvard worse of a school today than it was yesterday? Of course not,” said law school consultant Mike Spivey. “But Harvard will be the buzz.”
U.S. News started ranking American Bar Association-accredited law schools in 1990, which was the only other year that Harvard landed outside the top 3. (It was No. 5 that year.)
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