Law Schools
Missouri Law Dean Criticizes US News Rankings After His School Takes Another Hit
The University of Missouri School of Law dropped once again this year in the rankings published by U.S. News & World Report, but law dean Larry Dessem is taking it all in stride.
“I’m disappointed but not particularly surprised,” Dessem told the Columbia Daily Tribune. “This is magazine marketing masquerading as social science.”
Dessem noted questions about whether law schools are supplying accurate data. He told the newspaper the rankings “are becoming increasingly discredited, and they’re even less relevant if they don’t get good data.”
U.S. News put the school in 59th place in 2008, 65th place in 2009, and 93rd place last year, TaxProf Blog reports. Now it has tumbled to 107th place.
