America’s Best Law Schools
Dec 18th, 2008 by GCR Editor
Our method of using Google to rank colleges and universities can also be applied to certain professional schools, such as law schools. Here’s a first ranking of the top ten law schools in the United States, to serve as a basis for further comment and comparison:
- Harvard Law School
- Yale Law School
- Columbia Law School
- Stanford Law School
- University of Chicago Law School
- University of Michigan Law School
- University of Pennsylvania Law School
- University of Minnesota Law School
- Cornell Law School
- Berkeley Law (Boalt Hall, University of California)
Observers of American law schools will recognize most of these names as well-known institutions, all of them contained within universities of distinction.
Will these specific rankings be stable from month to month? Probably not: one of the lessons that the Google Gollege Rankings teaches is that Google results fluctuate. But this has the positive effect of encouraging prospective students not to get caught up in one particular ranking scheme. Every law school—as well as every university and every undergraduate college—has strengths and weaknesses, both academic and non-academic. Fluctuating rankings should encourage students to consider all aspects of an institution when looking for a good fit.
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