The latest issue of the National Jurist contains a law school ranking alternative to the dominant U.S. News ranking. The National Jurist Best Law School Ranking uses an unorthodox methodology – explained in more detail here – and has already stirred debate. For example, one of the factors (weighted at 20% of a school’s overall ranking) is how well a law school’s faculty fared on controversial website RateMyProfessor.com.
Nevertheless, here are the top 20 U.S. law schools according to The National Jurist’s 2013 ranking:
1. Stanford
2.Virginia
3. UC-Berkeley
4. Vanderbilt
5. Alabama
6. Harvard
7. Columbia
8. Pennsylvania
9. Texas Tech
10. North Carolina
11. LSU
12. Duke
13. Yale
14. George Washington
15. Oklahoma
16. Wisconsin
17. Michigan
18. Baylor
19. Boston University
20. BYU
Update: The National Jurist has announced that it has revised its ranking. The journal admitted it made errors in the law school data that it originally reported from RateMyProfessor.com, which counts for 20% of a school’s ranking.
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