Harvard slipped one spot pushed down by Stanford which moved into second place in the rankings.
The University of Washington surprised the rankings by sliding up ten spots to occupy the 20th place. The reports attributed the radical improvement to changes in faculty resources and in job placements of graduates. Similarly the Arizona State University drastically improved its rankings by reaching the 26th place from its previous 40th position.
Many of the top schools reported that the percentage of recruitments for graduates employed after nine months had fallen from that of last year. The percentages slipped in case of Yale from 96.5 percent to 91.8 percent and for Harvard the percentages dropped from 97.5 percent recruitments to 94.6 percent.
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Mark Weber, assistant dean for career services at Harvard Law told the media, “While we are concerned about how every student fares in the job market, we recognize that there will always be slight variations from year to year … If anything, these numbers speak volumes about how well our students have done in one of the toughest job markets in the last 25 years.”
The U.S. News & World Report law school rankings are used by students to decide their choice of school for submitting applications. The law school rankings use different metrics to arrive at their results including data on law school quality, LSAT scores, faculty resources and graduate job placements.
