2010 US News Rankings Leaked – Confirmed Valid
The 2010 US News Rankings have finally leaked. Below you will find a chart containing the new top 100 along with movement from last year’s rankings:
| Rank | School | +/- |
| 1 | Yale | |
| 2 | Harvard | |
| 3 | Stanford | -1 |
| 4 | Columbia | |
| 5 | NYU | |
| 6 | Berkeley | |
| 6 | Chicago | +1 |
| 8 | Penn | -1 |
| 9 | Michigan | |
| 10 | Duke | +2 |
| 10 | Northwestern | -1 |
| 10 | UVA | -1 |
| 13 | Cornell | -1 |
| 14 | GULC | |
| 15 | UCLA | +1 |
| 15 | Texas | +1 |
| 17 | Vanderbilt | -2 |
| 18 | USC | |
| 19 | WUSTL | |
| 20 | BU | +1 |
| 20 | Emory | +2 |
| 20 | Minnesota | +2 |
| 23 | IU – Bloomington | +13 |
| 23 | Illinois | +4 |
| 23 | Notre Dame | -1 |
| 26 | BC | |
| 26 | Iowa | +1 |
| 28 | William and Mary | +2 |
| 28 | GWU | -8 |
| 30 | Fordham | -3 |
| 30 | Alabama | +2 |
| 30 | UNC | +8 |
| 30 | U of Washington | |
| 30 | Washington and Lee | -5 |
| 35 | OSU | -3 |
| 35 | UC – Davis | +9 |
| 35 | Georgia | -3 |
| 35 | Wisconsin-Madison | +1 |
| 39 | UC – Hastings | -1 |
| 40 | Wake Forest | +2 |
| 41 | BYU | +5 |
| 41 | GMU | -3 |
| 43 | Arizona | -8 |
| 43 | Maryland | -1 |
| 45 | American | +1 |
| 45 | Tulane | -1 |
| 45 | CU – Boulder | -13 |
| 45 | Utah | +6 |
| 49 | SMU | -3 |
| 49 | Cardozo | +6 |
| 51 | U of Florida | -5 |
| 52 | Florida State | +3 |
| 52 | U of Cincinnati | |
| 52 | Uconn | -6 |
| 55 | Arizona State | -3 |
| 55 | Case Western | +8 |
| 55 | Pepperdine | +4 |
| 55 | Kentucky | +4 |
| 59 | Houston | -4 |
| 59 | Tennessee | -7 |
| 61 | Brooklyn | +2 |
| 61 | Lewis & Clark | +12 |
| 61 | San Diego | +21 |
| 61 | Villanova | +7 |
| 65 | Baylor | -10 |
| 65 | Georgia State | +12 |
| 65 | Penn State | +12 |
| 65 | Temple | -6 |
| 65 | U of Kansas | +8 |
| 65 | U of Missouri | -6 |
| 71 | Loyola LA | -8 |
| 71 | Miami | +11 |
| 71 | Oklahoma | -3 |
| 71 | Pitt | +2 |
| 75 | Louisiana State | +13 |
| 75 | UNLV | +13 |
| 77 | Chicago-Kent | -11 |
| 77 | Rutgers Camden | |
| 77 | Seattle | +5 |
| 77 | Seton Hall | -11 |
| 77 | Denver | +11 |
| 77 | New Mexico | -9 |
| 77 | Oregon | +5 |
| 77 | Richmond | -9 |
| 85 | Santa Clara | -8 |
| 85 | SUNY-Buff | +15 |
| 87 | DePaul | +1 |
| 87 | Indiana-Indianapolis | -19 |
| 87 | Loyola Chicago | -5 |
| 87 | Marquette | +8 |
| 87 | Rutgers Newark | -10 |
| 87 | St. John’s | +1 |
| 87 | South Carolina | +8 |
| 94 | Catholic | -6 |
| 94 | Northeastern | -6 |
| 94 | St Louis | +1 |
| 94 | Arkansas Fayetteville | NEW |
| 98 | Louisville | +2 |
| 98 | USF | NEW |
| 100 | Gonzaga | NEW |
| 100 | Hofstra | -1 |
| 100 | UMaine | NEW |
The top 10 part-time law schools are below: (full list here)
1. GULC
2. GW
3. Fordham
4. American
5. GMU
6. Maryland
7. Temple
7. San Diego
9. Denver
10. Chicago Kent
Law School Reactions
Fordham Press Release Regarding Part-Time Rankings here.
Georgia State Dean boasts about rankings here.
IU-B celebrates jump in rankings here.
CU-Boulder gives hat-tip to rankings here.
U Arkansas celebrates a top 100 ranking here.
Vermont toots own horn about #1 Envirolaw ranking here.
UC – Davis <3s this year's rankings here.
FSU is “delighted” to move up in the rankings here.
Utah acknowledges rankings bump here.
Cardozo happy about “leap” in to top 50 here.
Emory basks in top 20 prestige here.
UNC “pleased” to rise in rankings (and accept donations) here.
L&C Law is top 10 law school! (in the pacific region) here.
Nebraska claims that rankings are wrong here.
BYU forgets about last year’s rankings drop here.
GW Dean responds to rankings clobbering here.
William and Mary is skeptical but pleased here.
LSU congratulates self for highest ranking ever here.
Kansas ignores private schools here.
BC ranked 26th in the nation here.
Duke rises in the east, sits in the 10 spot here.
Iowa loves the specialty rankings here.
Stetson loves the specialty rankings even more here.
UNLV jumps 13 spots here.
Useful Links
Did Brooklyn Law School game the rankings? Probably.
Leiter has the reputation scores posted here.
Photographs of the full rankings can be found here.
Law School Almanac has a great t14 movement chart here.
Top-law-schools has the original leaked list here.
Large shot of part-time rankings here.
We respond to fake allegations here.
WSJ Law Blog confirms the legitimacy of these rankings here.
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12:05 pm on April 20th, 2009
Biggest Surprises:
IUB, CU – B, Florida, UConn
SMU P/T among the worst in the nation!
1:11 pm on April 20th, 2009
I don’t understand why some schools appear punished by the part-time policy and some don’t.
3:24 pm on April 20th, 2009
Chicago is consistently the most under rated school in the T10….Our clerkship and BigLaw placement is only trumped by Yale….Boalt does not even deserve to be in the T6 its HYS CCN for a reason (With Stanford being over rated)
3:54 pm on April 20th, 2009
Go Minnesota! So consistent.
8:12 pm on April 20th, 2009
Indylaw got screwed again!! No one knows what happend… The new dean here promised all these great new things… now look! One of the lowest falls in years!! WTF!!! I’m really ashamed right now to have the largest drop this year! The fluctuation has got to stop!
That stupid class action campaign didn’t do anything to help us! Any other great ideas DEAN!??
10:40 am on April 21st, 2009
Baylor used to be ranked in the 40s, now 65? What gives?
7:52 am on April 22nd, 2009
Once again my post is edited by the moderator.
10:48 am on April 22nd, 2009
Maryland continues to be under-rated….
11:10 am on April 22nd, 2009
Not only does UConn fall to T2, but its part time program doesn’t make the top 15. Sigh.
11:14 am on April 22nd, 2009
Brooklyn (Crooklyn) didn’t participate in the PT rankings to keep their FT ranking up.
11:16 am on April 22nd, 2009
American games the system better than any school on the list
11:19 am on April 22nd, 2009
IU doesn’t deserve to be top 25
11:51 am on April 22nd, 2009
What a joke…
11:55 am on April 22nd, 2009
Why isn’t Tulsa ranked?
12:07 pm on April 22nd, 2009
Why would it be?
12:47 pm on April 22nd, 2009
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10:50 pm on April 22nd, 2009
The US News rankings are a shame. My school did fine this year, but any system where schools can leap/fall 20% in a year (without a SCOTUS nomination) is inherently flawed. Did Boulder get that bad or Bloomington get good in one year? No way.
7:05 am on April 23rd, 2009
It is a real shame that Rutgers-Camden gets no respect.
It is a much better school than 77th, and every employer in the Philadelphia area knows it.
8:23 am on April 23rd, 2009
WTF is the deal with SUNY Buffalo’s huge leap to #85? Does anyone out there know something I don’t about their program?
1:57 pm on April 23rd, 2009
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8:40 am on May 6th, 2009
I could staff a fairly decent sized law firm just from the flame-outs I have seen come through my firm over the past 25-30 years from Harvard (excuse me, “The Law School”). Really, really smart. Really, really clueless. Really, really useless. And absolutely no sense for how to even begin to build a practice from the ground up. Unless Daddy has some friends at The Club who send along a few real estate closings. A bunch of pampered, overeducated, overachieving elitists with no street smarts whatsoever. They all need to go to really, really big firms where their wildly inefficient, over-the-top hourly postings can just get lost in the shuffle. These Top 100 listings couldn’t possibly be more irrelevant to determining who is going to be a successful lawyer and who is not.
2:37 pm on February 6th, 2010
Thank you John. I began to wonder if all my efforts should be focused on getting into these tier 1 schools but your comment re-commits my non-tier 1 choice. In the end life experience and actual “practice” makes good lawyers. (Besides mommy and daddy won’t be there to bail you out anymore.)
1:43 am on March 2nd, 2010
The best blog which I saw before. Hope to vissit it again
5:49 pm on March 9th, 2010
Так жн поздравляю всех дам с праздничком.