TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Jan 19, 2023

U.S. News & World Report has extended its survey deadline to Jan. 27 following announcements from a multitude of top law school deans that they would be boycotting the annual survey and law school rankings. The ABA Journal reports that it asked all ABA-accredited law schools whether they planned to submit the survey. Out of 110 schools that responded, 25 said they would not participate and 22 were undecided. U.S. News announced changes to its metrics earlier this month and last week informed deans about further modifications, including eliminating employment rates, average debt at graduation and spending on instruction from rankings criteria. Many deans opting out claimed U.S. News relied too much on reputation rankings and spending per student and classified graduates with school-funded fellowships as unemployed.