TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 20, 2024

U.S. News & World Report will release its 2024 law school rankings on April 9, amid predictions of possible methodology changes. According to Reuters, the publication is expected to modify its formula to make it more difficult for people to use publicly available American Bar Association (ABA) data to forecast results months in advance. U.S. News drastically altered its methodology in 2023 after nearly a quarter of law schools declined to provide any internal data, saying the publication's methodology hurt student diversity. As a result, the rankings were based primarily on ABA data such as employment rates and bar pass rates. That approach made it easier to project the rankings ahead of their official release and made it difficult to compare.