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Three prestigious law schools, UC Berkeley, Yale, and Harvard, have dropped out of the US News and World Report college ranking list. All three dropped out in protest of the organization’s methodology. In addition, Harvard Law dean John Manning released a statement criticizing the rankings list.
“[T]he US News methodology undermines the efforts of many law schools […],” Manning wrote. “[…] For these and other reasons, we will no longer participate in the US News process. It does not advance the best ideals of legal education or the profession we serve […].”
The US News and World Report have published an annual list of the best law schools since 1990. The publication’s methodology weighs school resources, post-graduation employment, and other factors. Additionally, all three colleges regularly rank in the top ten (Yale at one and Harvard at four in 2022). Several prestigious law school deans agree with Manning’s sentiment that the rankings list uses a flawed methodology.
Yale Law School dean Heather Gurken released a statement upon the school’s decision to drop out of the rankings list. She says the rankings list discourages schools from providing aid to students from lower-income backgrounds.
The publications’ methodology heavily weighs LSAT and GRE scores, which pressures schools to overlook students with lower scores. However, Gurken argues that this disproportionately impacts students from low-income backgrounds who can’t afford expensive test prep.
The Washington Post reports the US News College Rankings list has completely “reshaped” how law schools decide to accept applicants. According to sociologists Michael Sauder and Wendy Nelson Espeland, ranking poorly on the list can create severe issues for colleges. Additionally, Sauder and Espeland say several colleges opted out at the list’s inception, which caused them to drop in rank.
Additionally, Columbia University submitted bloated data to the publication, which Columbia Professor Michael Thaddeus said was to increase its rank. Instead, the Ivy League university dropped sixteen places, from second to eighteenth, in the overall rankings in 2022. Despite the inaccurate data, the publication’s decision to drop Columbia’s ranking drew scrutiny from Thaddeus.
“[…] US News has shown its operations are so shoddy that both of [the rankings] are meaningless,” Thadeus said. “If any institution can decline [sixteen spots] in a single year, it just discredits the whole ranking operation.”
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