Top 20 U.S. Law Schools Ranked

Note: While generally reflecting common 'wisdom', view this list skeptically: Rankings change every year; Ranking is subjective; $ correlates to job location, i.e. few (sane) Stanford Grads want to be in NYC; Methodology is suspect, i.e. why is Duke #7?; Etc. [Besides, everyone knows that U of Nevada is the best... And the first 10 people who tell us why it's not ranked on ANY list may get $1,000,000,000.00 (Yes, that's billion!) each. -- Staff] ============ Rank School Rank by Rank by Placement '93 Med Academics Lwyrs/Judges Success Starting Salary($) 1 Yale 1 1 2 83,000 2 Harvard 1 1 5 70,000 3 Stanford 1 1 6 67,000 4 U of Chicago 1 1 4 70,000 5 Columbia 1 6 3 83,000 6 NYU 7 11 1 83,000 7 Duke 11 9 9 65,000 8 U of Mich Ann Arbor 1 1 7 63,283 9 U of PA 7 9 8 70,000 10 UC Berkeley 7 6 17 65,000 11 Cornell 11 11 10 68,550 12 Northwestern 11 11 13 70,000 13 Georgetown 15 11 15 70,000 14 U of VA 7 6 11 69,900 15 Vanderbilt 19 17 14 58,125 16 UCLA 16 16 18 69,400 17 U of Minn Twin Cities 17 20 21 53,000 18 USC 19 26 16 61,750 19 U of Iowa 19 26 27 45,500 20 UC Hastings 23 17 24 65,000 ========== Source: U.S. News & World Report, March, 1994 ----- Brought to you by - The 'Lectric Law Library The Net's Finest Legal Resource For Legal Pros & Laypeople Alike. http://www.lectlaw.com