Today is US News rankings day – a day of mixed emotions for law school deans, faculty, students, and alumni. Congratulations to Ohio State and Pepperdine for tying for first in this year’s dispute resolution rankings, and the big news is the logjam of four schools (Northwestern, Texas A&M, Mizzou, and Cardozo). Remember these votes are purely reputational on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being high, and note I’ve listed the reputational scores is listed as well.
Below are the top 15 because that’s all that I could get my hands on. If anyone can send me through 25, I will happily post edit this post to include that info. Congrats (and condolences as the case may) to everyone.
update – rankings up to 31 are listed below this chart
| 1 | Ohio State University | 4.5 |
| 1 | Pepperdine University | 4.5 |
| 3 | Harvard University | 4.4 |
| 4 | Northwestern University | 4.0 |
| 4 | Texas A&M University | 4.0 |
| 4 | University of Missouri | 4.0 |
| 4 | Yeshiva University (Cardozo) | 4.0 |
| 8 | University of Nevada–Las Vegas | 3.9 |
| 9 | Mitchell Hamline School of Law | 3.8 |
| 9 | University of California–Hastings | 3.8 |
| 9 | University of Oregon | 3.8 |
| 12 | University of Maryland | 3.7 |
| 13 | Arizona State University | 3.6 |
| 13 | Fordham University | 3.6 |
| 15 | Marquette University | 3.5 |
| 15 | Quinnipiac University | 3.5 |
| 15 | South Texas College of Law Houston | 3.5 |
| 15 | Stanford University | 3.5 |
| 15 | University of California–Los Angeles | 3.5 |
Update – Here are the rankings through 22 – which really takes us through 31 (instead of 15) since 8 schools are tied at 22. Hat tip to Nancy Welsh for sending them along.
| 20 | Georgetown University | 3.4 |
| 20 | New York University | 3.4 |
| 22 | Columbia University | 3.3 |
| 22 | Cornell University | 3.3 |
| 22 | Seattle University | 3.3 |
| 22 | Stetson Univesity | 3.3 |
| 22 | Suffolk University | 3.3 |
| 22 | University of California – Irvine | 3.3 |
| 22 | University of Denver | 3.3 |
| 22 | University of Pennsylvania | 3.3 |
| 22 | University of Texas – Austin | 3.3 |
| 22 | University of Virginia | 3.3 |
