Harvard Law School Drops Out of Top 3
In the U.S. News and World Report’s latest rankings, Harvard Law School dropped to #4, tying with Columbia and falling behind #1 Yale, #2 Stanford, #3 University of Chicago. Declines for HLS were noted in peer assessments (by legal academics) and its graduate employment rate.
“The current ranking is based on peer assessments by law faculty and ratings by lawyers and judges, as well as Law School Admission Test (LSAT) scores, undergraduate grade-point averages, employment and bar passage rates, student borrowing, and per-student expenditures, among other factors.”
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