For Prospective Law Students

Law School Profiles

1. Internet Legal Research Group

http://ilrg.com/rankings/law/list.php

Provides contact, website, and application information, along with:

Acceptance Rates (by LSAT and GPA); bar passage information; graduate employment information; tuition and room & board; enrollment numbers and student-to-faculty ratio; and full time staff salaries.

Law School Rankings

"Judging the Law Schools"

2. Thomas M. Cooley Law School

http://www.cooley.edu/rankings.

Based on data supplied to the ABA by the law schools, this site lets viewers search the current version according to school or state, or by any of the 32 factors used in the rankings, such as enrollment numbers, tuition, library data, number of applicants, LSAT scores, and minority enrollment.

3. Internet Legal Research Group's Index to Law School Rankings

http://www.ilrg.com/rankings.html

Provides the ABA's raw data plus links to many sites providing and analyzing law school rankings.

4. US News & Reports Law School Rankings

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/law/lawindex_brief.php

The best known ranking system. See "Leiter's Law School Rankings" for a critique of the methodology.

5. Brian Leiter's Law School Reports

http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/

News and information from law schools around the U.S.

6. Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings

http://www.leiterrankings.com/

Leiter’s Law School Rankings presents law school rankings material in seven categories:

• Newest Rankings
• Faculty Rankings
• Student Rankings
• Job Placement
• U.S. News Rankings contains discussions of the U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings and how the rankings on this site differ from U.S. News
• Archives
• Links  to law review articles on law school rankings