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
Update. Now add #Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
https://news.law.northwestern.edu/us-news-rankings-participation/
That makes 8 major US law schools to date: #Yale, #Harvard, #Berkeley, #Columbia, #Georgetown, #Stanford, #Michigan, and #Northwestern. #Penn is still deliberating.
I'm esp glad to see Northwestern join this list. I got my JD there in 1982.
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Will Not Participate in U.S. News Rankings - Northwestern Pritzker School of Law News
Earlier today, Northwestern Pritzker Law Dean Hari Osofsky shared the following message with the Northwestern Pritzker Law community: Dear Members of the Northwestern Pritzker Law Community, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law has decided not to participate in the U.S. News rankings because its approach does not align with our law school’s values. We remain committed…
Update. Now add #Duke Law School.
https://law.duke.edu/news/message-dean-abrams-regarding-withdrawal-us-news-rankings
That makes 9 major US law schools to date: #Yale, #Harvard, #Berkeley, #Columbia, #Georgetown, #Stanford, #Michigan, #Northwestern, and #Duke
Update. Now add the #UCIrvine School of Law.
https://www.law.uci.edu/news/in-the-news/2022/11-23-ucilaw-usnews-ranking.html
That makes 10 major US law schools that have stopped participating in the USNWR rankings: #Yale, #Harvard, #Berkeley, #Columbia, #Georgetown, #Stanford, #Michigan, #Northwestern, #Duke, and #UCIrvine.
kdnyhan@petersuber waiting for the first public health school to do the same things. Little different in that the USN&WR methodology for public health schools and programs doesn't include job placement rates or starting salaries, so in this discipline, grads committing to public service isn't a downward factor like in law.
@petersuber But it's still not very rigorous. It's a survey sent to the dean of every school and director of every program accredited by CEPH. They can rate the "academic quality" of the schools and programs 1-5 or don't know, and the ratings are averaged.
The response rate was 34.1% last time. No idea how close or far the average score for, say, the 20th school is from the 1st place school.
The response rate was 34.1% last time. No idea how close or far the average score for, say, the 20th school is from the 1st place school.
@petersuber incidentally, there are big differences in the response rates for the USN&WR peer assessment surveys in different disciplines, from 18% of doctoral programs in clinical psychology to 66% of health care management programs accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education. I wonder what drives these participation rates?