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Students Rate Law Schools: Texas No. 1 for Classrooms, Va. for Quality of Life
Posted Oct 20, 2008 10:48 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
The University of Texas School of Law has the best classroom experience and the University of Virginia School of Law has the best quality of life, according to the Princeton Review’s new rankings.
The review’s publication Best 174 Law Schools is based on surveys of 18,000 law students and school-reported data, according to a press release.
Other law schools taking top place were Boston University for best professors, the University of Michigan for best career prospects, the City University of New York-Queens College for most welcoming of older students, and Howard University for the best environment for minority students and the most diverse faculty.
Yale University was ranked toughest to get into, followed by Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania.
Hat tip to TaxProf Blog, which lists the top five schools in several categories.
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Comments
J.D.
Oct 20, 2008 1:55 PM CST
I’m not so certain about the accuracy of Howard having the most “diverse faculty.” From even a cursory glance at their faculty page, it seems that the faculty is quite uniform and non-diverse.
Ellen Barshevsky
Oct 21, 2008 5:48 AM CST
I agree COMPELTELY with post #1. I think it MUST be a Typo. I think that HARVARD, not HOWARD, has the most diverse factulty.
After all, HARVARD is in Boston AND Boston is a VERY good place to go to LAW school, and it is where my boyfriend went to college. We went there to VISIT and it was VERY nice.
I know one man who REALLY went to HOWARD, and he pretneds that he went to HARVARD. Mabye he thinks I don’t know, But I SAW his transcrip, and it was not HARVARD.
Where is GWU on the LIST?
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