petersuberVery glad to see this:
Harvard Law School will stop participating in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/17/harvard-law-school-drops-out-of-us-news-rankings/
Update. Five major US law schools have now stopped participating in the US News World and World Report rankings:
#Yale, #Harvard, #Berkeley, #Columbia, and #Georgetown (apparently in this order).
Update. There may soon be a sixth.
The University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School told the Chronicle of Higher Education: “Penn Carey Law applauds Yale Law and Harvard Law for their leadership in raising key questions for all law schools by withdrawing from the U.S. News & World Report rankings. We are evaluating this issue and assessing a process for our own decision-making.”
https://www.chronicle.com/article/yale-and-harvards-law-schools-are-ditching-the-u-s-news-rankings-will-others-follow
Update. #Stanford Law School has also refused to take part in the US News and Word report #rankings.
https://law.stanford.edu/press/stanford-law-school-will-not-participate-in-us-news-law-school-ranking/
h/t @jeridansky
Update. The U of #Michigan Law School has now joined #Yale, #Harvard, #Berkeley, #Columbia, #Georgetown, and #Stanford in refusing to take part in the USNWR #rankings.
https://michigan.law.umich.edu/news/michigan-law-will-not-participate-us-news-rankings
https://michigan.law.umich.edu/news/michigan-law-will-not-participate-us-news-rankings
Stephen Eglen@petersuber how is this playing out? Are these all the top law schools dropping out now, and then as other schools reach the top, they also drop out?
and apologies, I'm not aware of the context of US News, but is this a specific snub against that magazine? Or could it be a wider point about the futility of rankings?